There are so many other worthy and enjoyable things I want to do, and surely the entire nature must receive attention and be cultivated. I am satisfied with what I already have, for a time. These and a thousand other seemingly valid excuses are thrown up by the aroused nature. The bewildered student seeks to follow at one and the same time the path to Knowledge and the voices of this complex brood. For the student's own nature is Truth itself, and once he has called upon it in sincerity, it will thereafter drive him forever, regardless of the direction he may try to follow, in vain attempt to satisfy the ever-restless emotional nature which he is permitting to guide him.
Inner disturbance makes outward disturbance.
Nature, as epitomized in every department of the Student's being, revolts. No one, whether his outcome be success or failure, is exempt from the effects of the struggling nature. Those who win through to Knowledge and become Knowers have not been exempt from the common lot, which has been found too severe by the failures and the part-failures. The Voice of the Silence shows the course, points out the obstructions, indicates the landmarks of the Path to knowledge, tells how to recognize them. The goal is worth all that it costs, is real, tangible, glorious, satisfying, the only goal worth striving for, because it includes them all.