Face your difficulties and obstacles with a smile

Another remarkable sign of the conversion of your vital,
owing to Agni’s influence, is that you face your difficulties and
obstacles with a smile. You do not sit any more in sackcloth
and ashes, lamenting over your mistakes and feeling utterly
crestfallen because you are not at the moment quite up to the
mark. You simply chase away depression with a smile. A hundred
mistakes do not matter to you: with a smile you recognise that you have erred and with a smile you resolve not to repeat
the folly in the future. All depression and gloom is created by
the hostile forces who are never so pleased as when throwing
on you a melancholy mood. Humility is indeed one thing and
depression quite another, the former a divine movement and the
latter a very crude expression of the dark forces. Therefore, face
your troubles joyously, oppose with invariable cheerfulness the
obstacles that beset the road to transformation. The best means
of routing the enemy is to laugh in his face! Youmay grapple and
tussle for days and he may still show an undiminished vigour;
but just once laugh at him and lo! he takes to his heels. A laugh
of self-confidence and of faith in the Divine is themost shattering
strength possible—it disrupts the enemy’s front, spreads havoc
in his ranks and carries you triumphantly onwards.-THE MOTHER.