A devotee was struggling, with apparent lack of success, to overcome the weaknesses of his human nature. To him the Master once said, "I don't ask you to overcome delusion. All I ask is that you resist it."The Master Said, 1952 first edition, page 16

It is very difficult to overcome temptation, nobody say it is easy! But once you have struggle for that weakness you have also strenghtened your will and this positive obtaining remain with our soul in the successive lives.