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=What Are Efforts?=
One makes all sorts of effort - of will, of discipline, efforts of concentration, all sorts of efforts to find the Divine, to discover what He is, to become acquainted with Him and unite with Him. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/23-may-1956#p4</ref>
The effort demanded of the sadhak is that of aspiration, rejection and surrender <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/resistances-sufferings-and-falls#p28</ref>
The energy of one’s effort is to conquer ignorance and free oneself from falsehood. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-awakened-one-the-buddha#p33</ref>
=Why Are Efforts Needed?=
One can't live without effort! If one were to refuse to make any effort, one would not even be able to stand on one's legs or walk or even eat. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/12-september-1956#p5</ref>
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>
=What Are Efforts?=One must use effort to triumph over tamas and lazy indifference. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/18-july-1964#p5 </ref>
It is only The first effortmust be to find the soul within, in whatever domain it be—material effort, moral effort, intellectual effort—which creates in the being certain vibrations which enable you to get connected unite with universal vibrations; it and allow 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 govern 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 's life, is the exchange of forces with universal forces. People do not know this, they would not be able to tell you that it is due to this, but so it is.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/13-january-1951#p14 </ref>
The first Once this effort must be for progress and transformation becomes the most important thing in your life, the thing to find which you give constant thought, then indeed you are on the way towards the soul withineternal existence, to unite with it and allow it to govern one's lifethe truth of your being.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-9#p4</ref> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/vigilance#p46</ref>
==What Is Personal How to Make an Effort?==
There The psychic poise is one part of necessary: the being discrimination must develop which sees accurately what is not at all conscious of being a part of the Divine. The whole Force, what is the element of the outer being is convinced that it is something separatepersonal effort, independent and related only to itselfwhat is brought in as a mixture from the lower cosmic forces. This part of the being There must necessarily make always be as a personal effort. It can't be toldcontribution, "The Divine does a constant consent to the sadhana for you"true Force, for it would never do anything, it would never be changeda constant rejection of any lower mixture—that is very important. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0429/28-april-1951surrender#p1,p3,p4p84</ref>
==Effortlessness==The effort for progress must be made for the love of the effort for progress. The joy of effort, the aspiration for progress must be enough in themselves, quite independent of the result. Everything one does in yoga must be done for the joy of doing it, and not in view of the result one wants to obtain. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/23-april-1958#p4 </ref>
.. when one is well prepared and the nature is ready, then the last movement is like a spontaneous blossoming—it's no longer an effort, it's an answer. It is a truly divine action in the being: one is prepared and the moment has e, then the bud opens.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/18-january-1956#p25 </ref>==By Being Sincere==
=Why Are Efforts Needed?=When one says, "See! I am going to make an effort, but that's because I want this in exchange for my effort." One is no longer spontaneous, no longer natural. Effort must not be made with a sense of bargaining. There must be a true aspiration and the result to be obtained must be left to the higher power. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/23-april-1958#p6</ref>
One can't live without effort! If one were to refuse to make any effort, one would not even be able to stand on one's legs or walk or even eat. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/12-september-1956#p5</ref>==By Being Persistent==
Those who Remaining steady in our effort and quiet and firm in our determination, we are essentially lazy will never find joy—they do not have the strength sure to be joyful...Effort makes the being vibrate at a certain degree of tension which makes it possible for you to feel reach the joygoal. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0414/13-januarysteady-1951effort#p11 p8 </ref>
Steady efforts always bring great results.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/steady-effort#p6 </ref>=Roadblocks to Do Effort=
One In the human mind there is a morbid and deplorable habit of doubt, argument, scepticism. ''This'' is where human effort must make an effort be put in: the refusal to come into touch with one’s psychic beingadmit them, the refusal to listen to become aware them and free in still more the consciousness of the psychic being, refusal to follow them. No game is more dangerous than playing mentally with doubt and thenscepticism. They are not only enemies, quite naturallythey are terrible pitfalls, spontaneouslyand once one falls into them, you will know what Divine Love isit becomes tremendously difficult to pull oneself out. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0409/249-marchjuly-19511958#p28 p6 </ref>
=How Laziness is a kind of tamas, but in laziness there is an ill-will, a refusal to Make make an Effort?=effort—while tamas is inertia: one wants to do something, but one can't. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/28-april-1951#p8 </ref>
It is always better to make an effort in the right direction; even if one fails the effort bears some result and is never lost.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/surrender#p93</ref>=What Is Effortlessness?=
You look at where you want to go But a time comes when one feels the Presence and put all your effort in the movement to go forward. How far you have gone Force constantly and more and more feels that that is not your concern. For doing everything—so that the moment what worst difficulties cannot disturb this sense and personal effort is no longer necessary , hardly even possible. That is to do it; this is the only thing that matterssign of the full surrender of the nature into the hands of the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0929/8-october-1958surrender#p7 p73</ref>
==Roadblocks to Do Effort==When one is well prepared and the nature is ready, then the last movement is like a spontaneous blossoming—it's no longer an effort, it's an answer. It is a truly divine action in the being: one is prepared and the moment has come, then the bud opens. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/18-january-1956#p25</ref>
One can consider ignorance the cause of all bad things. But I think that one is cowardly because one is very tamasic and fears having to make an effort. In order not to be cowardly, one must make an effort, begin by an effort, and afterwards it becomes very interesting. But the best thing is to make the effort to overcome this kind of flight out of oneself. Instead of facing the thing, one recoils, runs away, turns one's back and runs away. For the initial effort is difficult. And so, what prevents you from making an effort is the inert, ignorant nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/26-january-1955#p18 </ref>
Nothing is more dangerous than wanting to rest. It is in action, in effort, in the march forward that repose must be found, the true repose of complete trust in the divine Grace, of the absence of desires, of victory over egoism.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/20-march-1957#p11</ref>'''Content curated by Kiran'''
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