=What Are Efforts?=
It is only One makes all sorts of effort- of will, in whatever domain it be—material effortof discipline, moral effortefforts of concentration, 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 all sorts of inertia; it is effort which makes you receptive efforts to find the universal forces. And the one thing above all which spontaneously gives joyDivine, even to those who do not practise yoga, who have no spiritual aspiration, who lead quite an ordinary life, discover what He 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 isbecome acquainted with Him and unite with Him.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0408/1323-januarymay-19511956#p14 p4</ref>
The first effort must be to find demanded of the soul withinsadhak is that of aspiration, to unite with it rejection and allow it to govern one's life.surrender <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1031/aphorismresistances-sufferings-and-9falls#p4p28</ref>
==What Is Personal Effort?==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>
There is =Why Are Efforts Needed?= One can't live without effort! If one part of the being which is not at all conscious of being a part of the Divine. The whole of the outer being is convinced that it is something separate, independent and related only were to refuse to itself. This part of the being must necessarily make a personal any effort. It can't be told, "The Divine does the sadhana for you", for it one would never do anything, it would never not even be changedable to stand on one's legs or walk or even eat. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwm/0408/2812-aprilseptember-19511956#p1,p3,p4p5</ref>
==Effortlessness==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>
When one is well prepared and the nature is ready, then the last movement is like a spontaneous blossoming—it's no longer an One must use effort, it's an answer. It is a truly divine action in the being: one is prepared to triumph over tamas and the moment has e, then the bud openslazy indifference.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0817/18-januaryjuly-19561964#p25 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> =Why Are Efforts NeededHow to Make an Effort?= The psychic poise is necessary: the discrimination must develop which sees accurately what is the Divine Force, what is the element of personal effort, and what is brought in as a mixture from the lower cosmic forces. There must always be as a personal contribution, a constant consent to the true Force, a constant rejection of any lower mixture—that is very important.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/surrender#p84</ref> 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> ==By Being Sincere== 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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