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power to apply itself even to the most difficult things. What you have decided to do, you
must do, whatever the cost, even if you have to renew your effort over and over again any
number of times in order to do it. Your will will be strengthened by the effort and you will
have only to choose with discernment the goal to which you will apply it.

To sum up: one must gain a full knowledge of one’s character and then acquire control
over one’s movements in order to achieve perfect mastery and the transformation of all the
elements that have to be transformed.

Now all will depend upon the ideal which the effort for mastery and transformation seeks
to achieve. The value of the effort and its result will depend upon the value of the ideal.
This is the subject we shall deal with next, in connection with mental education.

The Mother. The Collected Works of the Mother, Volume 12. Cent ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
Ashram Trust; 1978, pp. 18-23.

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