There are many ins and outs, ups and downs in the spiritual path. Most of the deviations are not deviations but rather they are incidences due to miscalculations, where the yogi did not figure every factor into the equation.

Hence when nature appears with objections and denials, the yogi becomes frightened or is disappointed. Suppose I say that the sun will never rise from the West. What will happen if the sun suddenly does so? My disciples will run around crying, "Our guru is a liar! Our guru is a fraud!"

But nature never stated that this guru was to be correct in every declaration. Nature was silent when I made the claim. That itself was the warning. So much of someone's success in yoga has to do with support from nature, such that if nature pulls back or does not supplement, the guru will be proven false.

And this is okay! Is it not?