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Destiny in the rigid sense applies only to the outer being so long as it lives in the Ignorance. What we call destiny is only in fact the result of the present condition of the being and the nature and energies it has accumulated in the past acting on each other and determining the present attempts and their future results. But as soon as one enters the path of spiritual life, this old predetermined destiny begins to recede. There comes in a new factor, the Divine Grace, the help of a higher Divine Force other than the force of karma, which can lift the sadhaka beyond the present possibilities of his nature. One’s spiritual destiny is the divine election which ensures the future. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/fate-free-will-and-prediction#p2</ref>
==Devi==
==Devotion==
==Dhāranā==
==Difficulties==
==Distrust==
==Disturbances==
There are always two things that can rise up and assail the silence - vital suggestions, the physical mind’s mechanical recurrences. Calm rejection for both is the cure. There is a Purusha within who can dictate to the nature what it shall admit or exclude, but its will is a strong, quiet will; if one gels perturbed or agitated over the difficulties, then the will of the Purusha cannot act effectively as it would otherwise.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/sadhana-through-meditation-i#p57</ref>
==Divine==