When you have something to realise, you will have in you just the characteristic which is the contradiction of that something. Face to face with the defect, the difficulty, you say: "Oh, I am like that! How awful it is!" But you ought to see the truth of the situation. Say to yourself: "My difficulty shows me clearly what I have ultimately to represent. To reach the absolute negation of it, the quality at the other pole – this is my mission."
Even in ordinary life, we have sometimes the experience of contraries. He who is very timid and has no courage in front of circumstances proves capable of the most!…
There is also the fact that if somebody has a hundred difficulties it means he will have a tremendous realisation – provided, of course, there are in him patience and endurance and he keeps the aspiring flame of Agni burning against those defects.
And remember: the Grace of the Divine is generally proportionate to your difficulties.
