Personal Effort

Personal effort is needed for opening yourself more and more by assent to the true things, Peace, Light, Truth, Ananda — by refusing the wrong things, such as anger, falsehood, lust etc.

It is the wrong movements,— self-will, egoism, the vital passions, vanity, personal desires etc. that stand in the way of giving full assent to the Mother’s working in the Sadhak’s nature.

If there is no personal effort, if the sadhak is too indolent and tamasic to try, why should the Grace act ?

Note that a tamasic surrender refusing to fulfil the conditions and calling on God to do everything and save one all the trouble and struggle is a deception and does not lead to freedom and perfection.

So long as there is not the full Presence and conscious working of the higher Force, some amount of the personal effort is indispensable. To do the sadhana for the sake of the Divine and not for one’s own sake is of course the true attitude.