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===As an Inner Barometer===
… the moment they [aspiration and surrender] are not total, you are no longer happy. You feel uneasy, very miserable, dejected, a bit unhappy…unhappy. ... This is the barometer! You may immediately tell yourself that an insincerity has crept in somewhere. It is very easy to know, you don't need to be very learned, for, as Sri Aurobindo has said.... One knows whether one is happy or unhappy, one knows whether one is content or discontented, one doesn't need to ask oneself, put complicated questions for this, one knows it!
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/7-july-1954#p77</ref>
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If [our surrender] is truly sincere, it becomes happy. So long as it is not—you may reverse the thing—so long as it is not happy, you may be sure it is not perfectly sincere; for if it is perfectly sincere, it is always happy. If it is not happy, it means that there is something which holds back, something which would like things to be otherwise, something that has a will of its own, a desire of its own, its own purpose and is not satisfied, and therefore is not completely surrendered, not sincere in its surrender. But if one is sincere in one's surrender, one is perfectly happy, automatically; rather, one automatically enjoys an ineffable happiness. Therefore, as long as this ineffable happiness is not there, it is a ''sure'' indication that you are not sincere, that there is something, some part of the being, larger or smaller, which is not sincere. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/7-july-1954#p57</ref>
===An Opportunity for Progress===