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Overcoming Doubt and Fear of Failure in the Yogic Sadhana Through the Shift from the Ego-Standpoint to the Divine Standpoint · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We seem to be always second guessing ourselves.
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  Are we doing the sadhna in the right way?
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  Is there another method or technique I should be employing?
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  Why am I not seeing the results I expect and desire?
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  Am I even cut out for doing sadhna?
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  Maybe this was all just a big mistake and I should get on with
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  my life, my career, my family and my enjoyment.
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  This second guessing is based in the ego consciousness and it
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  puts this ego personality at the center of everything.
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  There is a fundamental belief, perhaps not actually voiced or
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  even consciously thought, that the Son of the Divine revolves
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  around the earth of our ego sense.
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  If we, however, shift the standpoint, the questions take
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  on very little actual meaning. When we begin to recognize that
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  the Divine is systematically manifesting the universal
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  creation and that those who are called to the yogic path are
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  called under the impulsion of the Divine, it becomes clear
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  that all the second guessing is unnecessary.
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  Each individual is confronted with the unique challenges to
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  which his current development and make up are suited and which
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  he is given the opportunity to work on to bring about the
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  changes that need to occur for the next stage of the evolution
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  of consciousness to manifest and transform life on the earth.
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  Once we recognize this basic truth of our existence, we can
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  begin to accept that constancy in our focus and dedication is
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  the essential factor that we can contribute and that makes the
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  intended result able to manifest in our lives.
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  The Law of Attraction implies that what we focus on with
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  consistency and intensity will be called forth to us over time
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  and through whatever obstacles and difficulties stand in the
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  way, Sri Orobindo notes quote. Whether by Tapasia or surrender
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  does not matter. The one thing is to be firm in
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  setting one's face to the goal. Once 1 is set one's feet on the
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  way, how can one draw back from it to something inferior?
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  IF1 keeps firm, falls do not matter.
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  One rises up again and goes forward.
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  If one is firm towards the goal, there can be on the way to the
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  divine no eventual failure. And if there is something within
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  you that drives as surely there is, falterings or falls or
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  failure of faith make no eventual difference.
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  One has to go on till the struggle is over and there is
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  the straight and open and thornless way before us.
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  You have only to remain quiet and firm in your following of
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  the path and your will to go to the end.
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  If you do that, circumstances will in the end be obliged to
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  shape themselves to your will, because it will be the Divine
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  will in you. And quote reference Sri
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  Aurobindo and the Mother looking from Within, Chapter 5,
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  Attitudes on the Path, page 138.