No fragrance, not even that of sandalwood or incense, nor of the lotus nor of jasmine, can be compared with the fragrance of intelligence.
Weak is the fragrance of incense or sandalwood compared to that of a virtuous man which reaches up to the highest of divinities.
Mara cannot discover the way that those beings follow who lead a life of perfect purity and who are liberated by their total knowledge.
Whatever may be the past, whatever may be the faults committed, whatever the ignorance in which one might have lived, one carries deep within oneself the supreme purity which can translate itself into a wonderful realisation.
The whole point is to think of that, to concentrate on that and not to be concerned with all the difficulties and obstacles and hindrances.
Concentrate exclusively on what you want to be, forget as entirely as possible what you do not want to be.
[The Mother: CWM 3]
