It is important to allow yourself to be completely purged . You are all scared of this word ‘purging’ . With it you associate so many false things . It is not painful and torturous as you all think . It is your resistance to the process that makes it seem so . If there was burnt , black , sticky stuff stuck to the bottom of a vessel would you not scrub very hard so that the burnt remnants were cleaned away? Is this not the only way to clean the vessel? Does this hurt the vessel? No , not at all . The vessel in fact welcomes it because it knows that after this it will shine again . That is the same for all of you . You are vessels that have soiled bottoms due to the cooking process of life . In this process you all get burnt . This has to be cleaned away before you all can go on . This is what purging is. What you all are asking for is to become new vessels . You cannot . You stay the same vessel but the burnt remnants have to be removed . The more you cling to these the more force nature has to exert to remove them. Why not save yourself the pain and cheerfully surrender to the process? What is to happen will happen.It is inevitable. But , by surrendering you will greatly reduce the pain of resistance. So what if old memories come up? So what if old anger is revealed? So what if you see yourself for what you really are? This is nothing but the burnt remnants coming to the top. When they come up, be happy because they are proof that the cleaning process is working, the detergent, if you would like to call it, is effective . What you all do when you see the remnants at the top is to get so scared by its blackened, dirty appearance that you try to push them down again and force them to the bottom of the vessel again. Why ? Firstly , this cannot be done and secondly you are merely postponing the cleaning process. So when the dirt comes to the top, do what any cleaning maid would do -------- wash it down the sink of experience and see the brightness of the vessel again. Also, my child,remember that in this cooking process you are the cook. Others merely give you ingredients and you may or may not add them to the vessel. Once you choose to add the ingredients, both bitter and sweet, you cannot then hold the other person responsible for burning your vessel. You are the only person who does that and that is why only you must clean it. No one can do it for you and no, no one can make it easier for you to clean it either, because as you have already been told, the process becomes difficult because you are not permitting the vessel to be cleaned. So whether purging is difficult or easy is in your hands. If you make the process very difficult and put up a lot of resistance, nature will give up the effort with you. You will feel comfortable by this, but remember all that you have done is to postpone what must happen and what is also important to remember is that the longer the vessel stays unclean, the more difficult and the stronger is the scrubbing later.