Even the downward spiral is a also path towards spirituality

Sri Aurobindo
If we r more divine that we think because of the superconscious future that pulls us, we are also more beastlike than we imagine because of the subsconscient and inconscient past that drags us down.
This double mistery holds the key to the Secret. None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell.

The integral seeker is meant neither for the dark night nor the blinding light. Wherever he goes, he must see - this is the first stage of mastery.
For we do not seek to "pass on" to a better existence, but to transform this one.

For we are the field of this battle - all those worlds meet within us, from the highest to the lowest. There is no point in running away, holding our noses or crossing ourselves, we must enter the battlefield and conquer :
"He too must carry the yoke he came to unloose;
He too must bear the pang that he would heal"

Soul - Father, this msg is asking me to stay n conquer; the same as the courage; Professionaly, since I asked for change of Finance Mgr, I shld follow thru. Yea, suddenly tot instead of lamenting what I don't have n what I have to endure, at least acknowledge the blessing that my boss likes me despite thinking m average, not clear thinking. I have a Regional CFO who likes me. I do have a good team and there is opportunity to change d FM, just like I have changed d Admin.

Sri Aurobindo
You must know the whole before you can know the part and the highest before you can truly understand the lowest.
We r NOT meant to keep looking back, but to look ahead and above in the superconscious light, because there is our future, only the future can explain and heal the past.

Instead of looking at these sharp turns as a sort of fatality, the seeker will make them the basis of his work.
This twofold movement of ascent and descent is the fundamental process of integral yoga. On each height we conquer, we have to turn to bring down its power and its illumination into lower mortal movement.

Such is the price of transforming life, otherwise, we go on poeticising and spiritualising on the peaks, while underneath the old life keeps bumping along.

In practice, the downward movement is not effected by the arbitrary decision of the mind - the less the mind interferes, the better.

The process of yoga is in a spiral movement and not in a straight line.

"The hidden foe lodged in the human breast
Man must overcome or miss his higher fate
This is inner war without escape.

As long as we reject one for the other, we will fail miserably and will miss the goal of existence.

The practical beginning of the Secret is first become aware, then to see that each thing in this world, even the most grotesque or far-wandering error, contain a spark of truth beneath the veil because everything here below is God moving on in search of himself.

If the seeker accepts to through the corresponding degree below, without cutting anything, so as to deliver there the same Light hidden under every mask, element and darkest mud, he will gradually see everything grow clear before his eyes, not theoretically but tangibly and will discover not only summits but vast abysses of Truth.

He will see that the Foe was the most diligent collaborator, most attentive to the perfect solidity of his realisation.
Firstly, each battle increased his strength and then because each fall has forced him to deliver the truth below instead of fleeing alone to vacous summits.
He will see that his Burden was the very burden of our Mother, the Earth.

Soul - I have read this before n now back to this chapter. Yea, looked within.
This msg is asking me to go thru the Burden for my spiritual enligthenment. This is the core of Sufferingisblessing.
Will stay till the end.

There are 2 ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet the difficulties.