Train yourself in the ideal of the lily, which blossoms in the mud and has to keep itself engaged in the struggle for existence day in and day out, parrying, bracing and fighting the shocks of muddy water and storms. And yet it does not forget the moon above.

No movement in this universe is possible without encountering opposition. Wherever there is movement, there is opposition also. The result of struggle against this opposition is termed progress. The more one desires to proceed vigorously to the goal, the more one is to struggle against the opposition.

Thus those who are adverse to struggle can never progress. They lag far behind, what to speak of progress. That’s why struggle is the essence of life. Those who abhor struggle, who misconstrue struggle as violence, have no place in the world.

The intelligent do not allow their mental purity to be stained even for a moment. To cleanse the mental sphere, force must be applied to remove the impurities.

When the impurity of selfishness enters every cavity of the mind and makes life a heavy burden, it has to be burned and melted in the fire of spiritual practices.

When a spiritual aspirant tries to enlarge his mind, naturally debasing forces become very active. The aspirant is to enlarge his mind and spirit by fighting at each and every step, each and every stage of life.

In his mind there will be those two belligerent forces. That is, the spiritual force and the debasing material force will start fighting amongst each other in the mind. One force will try to exalt you towards the Supreme Self, another force will want to degrade you, goad you towards crude materialism.

He who wants to keep himself away from fight is unknowingly committing suicide, mental and spiritual suicide. Each and every man should be ready for fight – fight in the mental stratum, fight in each and every stratum of life. This is Tantra.

He is with you always. You are never alone.

Sometimes there arises in the mind a defeatest complex: “Oh, I am defeated in this project! Oh, I am defeated in this struggle for existence!” When your father is the Supreme Father, when your father is the most powerful entity in the entire universe, why should you think that you have been defeated in this struggle for existence?

No! A bright future awaits you – your future is glorious, your future is luminous, your future is effulgent.

Difficulties can never be greater than your capacity to solve them.