23. Patience, or fortitude (Dhriti), enables the devotee to bear misfortunes and insults with equilibrium. Outward events cannot shake him, more can occasional inner turmoil serve to deflect him from his chose path and goal: Self- realization. By stability the god-seeker learns to adhere under all circumstances to noble activities in the outer world, and to retain the perceptions of truth that come to hi during his meditations. He clings tenaciously to his experiences of should bliss and never dimes their reality by diverting his mind to lesser interests. This endless patience ultimately gives the sage the power to comprehend God. Dhriti expands the cup of his consciousness until it can hold within it the ocean vastness of Divinity.

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