Savitri
A Legend and a Symbol

Chapter 18Vigilance, Resolution, Will and the Divine Help · Letting the Force Work

Book 12. Part Four: Difficulties in the Practice of the Integral Yoga · Section Two: Overcoming the Difficulties of Yoga

The way in which the pains went shows you how to deal with the whole nature, — for it is the same with the mental and vital as with the physical causes of ill-ease and disturbance. To remain quiet within, to hold on to the faith and experience that to be quiet and open and let the Force work is the one way. Naturally, to be wholly conscious is not possible yet, but to feel it, to open, to let it work, to observe its result, that is the first thing. It is the beginning of consciousness and the way to complete consciousness.