Dada I am too egoistic and full of desire and greed for food. I am too vulnerable and sentimental and weak in will and resolution due to mental illness and I am too attached to my family because they have taken care of me during illness so it is difficult to follow detachment. I want to follow yoga path and I know that there are the attacks of hostile and adverse forces on everyone to break the morale who want to follow the yog path.
I want to become sincere and fearless. I want to be on the side of light and truth not on the opposite path. I want to get rid of fear. I want to be in company of satsangati. Sri Aurobindo says that there should be call, strong will and calm to follow the yoga path. Dada I don’t have strong will or strong calm but want to follow the path of yoga. I want to get rid of ego and desire. Dada is it fine to do pranayam if someone have mental illness? Alokda thank you for your talks, they always help.
However big or even seemingly impossible the difficulties, one can get rid of it all if one can hold through the inevitability struggle with complete faith in the Grace and a reliance on the Divine Mother’s Name. Keep praying and offering your difficulties doing your bit to push them away and eventually you will be freed from all distress by Her Grace.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
