The necessity of personal effort in sadhana diminishes as we progress in surrender and the Divine Mother takes charge of our life and breath and speech and act. Then it is She who does the sadhana in us and all that is needed is to remain open towards Her.
A machine is unconscious and hence its perfection is limited, a man is half-conscious with the possibility of collaborating in the evolutionary process and becoming fully conscious.
This is the great difference between the Hindu approach, almost inbuilt in the Hindu DNA, and major world religions where things began and ended with one founder and one book.
Guru or the one who gives Light, one who is heavy with Wisdom is an aspect of the Divine. He also represents the Compassion of the Divine that leans down into the earthly play to help man
... one has to learn to strive rightly and patiently. To learn to wait is to put Time on our side. To be restless and impatient is to delay things further. Even an intense prayer should be full of trust and patience
The psychic grows through its contact and experiences of the world. With its growth there emerge the capacities and possibilities embedded in it as a seed.
The development of the psychic being passes through a number of stages. The first stage is when it is fully submerged in nature and has forgotten itself completely.