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→Challenges on the Path of Freedom
The challenges here can be grouped as External and Internal Challenges. External challenges are -
'''Opposition from Matter - '''
Life strives to enlarge and prolong itself and succeeds; but when it seeks utter wideness and immortality, it meets the iron obstruction of Matter and finds itself bound to narrowness and death. <ref>http://incarnateword.in /cwsa/21/the-knot-of-matter#p7</ref>
'''Pressure of the Social Mass-'''
There is continually a danger that the exaggerated pressure of the social mass by its heavy unenlightened mechanical weight may suppress or unduly discourage the free development of the individual spirit. For man in the individual can be more easily enlightened, conscious, open to clear influences; man in the mass is still obscure, half-conscious, ruled by universal forces that escape its mastery and its knowledge. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/standards-of-conduct-and-spiritual- freedom#p15</ref>