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TWO OTHER POINTS
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persevere. Presently the desire and the. memory of the good resolution will arise together, and there will be a period of struggle—your Kurukshetra
-and you will sometimes succeed and sometimes fail ; ; persevere. Then successes will multiply, and failures be few; persevere. Then desire dies, and you watch baside its tomb, lest it should only be entranced, and revive. Finally you have done with that form of desire for ever. You have worked with the law and have conquered.
Two OTHER POINTS
1. Students are sometimes troubled because in their dreams they yield to a vice which down here they have conquered, or feel the stirring of a desire which they thought long slain. Knowledge will destroy the trouble. In a dream, a man is in his astral body, and a stirring of desire, too