If you, as a spiritual aspirant, are unsuccessful in following discipline, you must seek and know the cause of your defeat. This analysis is necessary. You must then see that in the second stage this trait is not repeated. You must try your best to guard yourself against this. In such matters, you must be quick and active like the squirrel. Agility and vigilance, combined with the sharpness of intelligence earned by peace, must quickly come to your aid. Courage, wise counsel, steadiness and undeviating earnestness is very important for avoiding and overcoming conflicts in your mind. A mind without agitations, a joyous and unblemished outlook... these are the marks of a person in whom peace has taken root.
- Divine Discourse, Prasanthi Vahini.
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