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It is only effort, in whatever domain it be—material effort, moral effort, intellectual effort—which creates in the being certain vibrations which enable you to get connected with universal vibrations; and it is this which gives joy. It is effort which pulls you out of inertia; it is effort which makes you receptive to the universal forces. And the one thing above all which spontaneously gives joy, even to those who do not practise yoga, who have no spiritual aspiration, who lead quite an ordinary life, is the exchange of forces with universal forces. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/13-january-1951#p14,p15</ref>
One must use effort to triumph over tamas and lazy indifference. <ref> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/18-july-1964#p5 </ref>
The first effort must be to find the soul within, to unite with it and allow it to govern one's life.
Once this effort for progress and transformation becomes the most important thing in your life, the thing to which you give constant thought, then indeed you are on the way towards the eternal existence, the truth of your being.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-9#p4</ref> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/vigilance#p46 </ref>
=How to Make an Effort?=