Another remarkable
sign of the conversion of your vital, owing to Agni’s influence, is that you
face your difficulties and obstacles with a smile. You do not sit any more in
sackcloth and ashes, lamenting over your mistakes and feeling utterly crestfallen
because you are not at the moment quite up to the mark. You simply chase away
depression with a smile. A hundred mistakes do not matter to you: with a smile
you recognise that you have erred and with a smile you resolve not to repeat
the folly in the future. All depression and gloom is created by the hostile
forces who are never so pleased as when throwing on you a melancholy mood.
Humility is indeed one thing and depression quite another, the former a divine
movement and the latter a very crude expression of the dark forces. Therefore,
face your troubles joyously, oppose with invariable cheerfulness the obstacles
that beset the road to transformation. The best means of routing the enemy is
to laugh in his face! You may grapple and tussle for days and he may still show
an undiminished vigour; but just once laugh at him and lo! he takes to his
heels. A laugh of self-confidence and of faith in the Divine is the most
shattering strength possible—it disrupts the enemy’s front, spreads havoc in
his ranks and carries you triumphantly onwards.
The converted vital
feels also a joy in the process of realisation. All the difficulties implied in
that process it accepts with gusto, it never feels happier than when the Truth
is shown it and the play of falsehood in its lower nature laid bare. It does
not do the Yoga as if carrying a burden on its back but as if it were a very
pleasurable occupation. It is willing to endure the utmost with a smile if it
is a condition of the transformation. Neither complaining nor grumbling, it
endures happily because it is for the sake of the Divine that it does so. It
has the unshakable conviction that the victory will be won. Never for an
instant does it vacillate in its belief that the mighty work of Change taken up
by Sri Aurobindo is going to culminate in success. For that indeed is a fact;
there is not a shadow of doubt as to the issue of the work we have in hand. It
is no mere experiment but an inevitable manifestation of the Supramental. The
converted vital has a prescience of the victory, keeps up a will towards
progress which never turns its back, feels full of the energy which is born of
its certitude about the triumph of the Divine whom it is aware of always in
itself as doing whatsoever is necessary and infusing in it the unfaltering
power to resist and finally conquer its enemies. Why should it despair or
complain? The transformation is going to be: nothing will ever stop it, nothing
will frustrate the decree of the Omnipotent. Cast away, therefore, all
diffidence and weakness, and resolve to endure bravely awhile before the great
day arrives when the long battle turns into an everlasting victory.
(CWM, Volume 3, Sri
Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Puducherry)
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