Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 3. 1936-37
1936-37
It is said that if a disciple receives his Guru’s touch or grace, his difficulties very often disappear.
All that is popular Yoga. The Guru’s touch or grace may open 
something, but the difficulties have always to be worked out still. What is true is that if there is complete surrender, which implies the prominence of the psychic, these difficulties are no longer felt as a burden or obstacle but only as superficial imperfections which the working of the grace will remove.