Sri Karmayogi Says,” Where human effort is exhausted one opens to the forces of universal life which takes up the movement. But if one stops at the penultimate step there will be no response.”
Often it happens that in one or more areas of a project a bottle neck is reached and progress grids to a halt. It may be a need for new ideas, new information, more men, money, materials etc. At these times it is good to step back from the particular issue at hand and examine the overall functioning of the principles already we know. Where the atmosphere surrounding the work is unfavourable, where disharmony continues to prevail, it is better to patiently refrain from action until the mood changes. But where the atmosphere is good and all elements seems ready for breakthrough, and then it may be that a token effort will turn the corner and bring success.
This means to make a determined initiation and persistent endeavour – no matter how small an extent may be possible and do whatever can be done in the given circumstances, exhaust all possibilities, potentials, and resources. At the end point where, one has fully exhausted his energies and capacities, life responds by bringing the components necessary to complete the work.
I think we can use the Token Act in two different ways. One, where a small token act will enable a breakthrough when something goes wrong or not moving in the direction we envisaged. Second, as an experiment in which we learn through the token effort the inner keys to make that work successfully turn around so that we can then apply the same to any other work, especially a larger one.
