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Let Endurance Be Your Watchword in the Yogic Endeavour · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Successful people in whatever field, tend to highlight their
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  ability to keep going. They indicate that no matter how
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  many times one falls, one must get up or in the local
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  vernacular, keep on keeping on. Reactiveness and inability to
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  hold one's peace under provocation is considered to be
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  a sign of vital weakness. People who have cultivated vital
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  strength tend to be able to bear much without expressions of
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  anger, without lashing out, without crying or otherwise
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  evidencing signs of distress. Many people have a habit of
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  complaining, of whining, of expressing how much they have to
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  put up with or how much suffering they are asked to
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  bear. Some people make it a habit to
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  flaunt their weakness with their constant bouts of anger and
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  complaints about how how they are a victim.
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  Much energy is spilled and wasted.
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  These individuals tend to break down easily under pressure.
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  Spiritual seekers who are confronted with challenges both
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  external and internal, on a constant basis are asked to
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  cultivate not just a stoic ability to bear suffering, but
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  to actually maintain a cheerful attitude of endurance come what
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  may. They are preparing the being to
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  receive, bear and hold more energy, and thereby to increase
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  their capacity for the yogic force to enter and transform
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  them. Yoga tends to increase the flow
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  of energy, and it is part of the seeker's role to widen
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  themselves and increase their ability to hold and use this
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  energy without wasting it or spilling it, The mother
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  observes. Quote.
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  Let endurance be your watchword. Teach the life force in you,
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  your vital being, not to complain, but to put up with all
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  the conditions necessary for great achievement.
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  The body is a very enduring servant.
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  It bears the stress of circumstance tamely, like a
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  beast of burden. It is the vital being that is
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  always grumbling and uneasy. The slavery and torture to which
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  it subjects the physical is almost incalculable.
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  How it twists and deforms the poor body to its own fads and
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  fancies, irrationally demanding that everything should be shaped
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  according to its whimsicality. But the very essence of
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  endurance is that the vital should learn to give up its
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  capricious likes and dislikes and preserve an equanimity in
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  the midst of the most trying conditions.
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  When you are treated roughly by somebody, or you lack something
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  which would relieve your discomfort, you must keep up
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  cheerfully. Instead of letting yourself be
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  disturbed. Let nothing ruffle you the least
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  bit. And whenever the vital tends to
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  air its petty grievances with pompous exaggeration, just stop
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  to consider how very happy you are compared to so many in the
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  world. End Quote reference.
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  Srioro Bindu and the Mother Looking from within, Chapter 5.
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  Attitudes on the Path, page 140.