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The big difficulty in Matter is that the
material consciousness (that is to say, the
mind in Matter) has been formed under
the pressure of difficulties — difficulties,
obstacles, sufferings, struggles. It has been,
so to say, “worked out” by these things
and that has left upon it a stamp, almost
of pessimism, defeatism, which is certainly
the greatest obstacle.

It is of this that I am conscious in my own
work. The most material consciousness,
the most material mind is accustomed to
act, to make an effort, to advance through
whippings; otherwise, it is tamas. And
then, so far as it imagines, it imagines
always difficulty, always the obstacle
or always the opposition, and that
slows down the movement terribly. Very
concrete, very tangible and often repeated
experiences are needed to convince it that
behind all its difficulties there is a Grace,
behind all its failures there is the Victory,
behind all its pains, its sufferings, its
contradictions, there is Ananda.

— The Mother