To do the yoga, this yoga of transformation which, of all things, is the most arduous, it is only if one feels that one has come here for that (I mean here upon earth) and that one has to do nothing else but that, and that it is the only reason of one's existence – even if one has to toil hard, suffer, struggle, it is of no importance "This is what I want, and nothing else," – then it is different. Otherwise I shall say: "Be happy and be good, and that is all that is asked of you. Be good, in the sense of being understanding, knowing that the conditions in which you have lived are exceptional, and try to live a higher, more noble, more true life than the ordinary one, so as to allow a little of this consciousness, this light and its goodness to express itself in the world. It would be very good." There we are.
But once you have set foot on the path of yoga, you must have a resolution of steel and walk straight on to the goal, whatever the cost.
