How can we use our human emotions and strengths to hold on to the spiritual path? Bhagawan gives us an interesting perspective today.

When japam (repetition of a holy name) is systematically started by you, fixing your inner eye on the form which illustrates the name, you will meet with many obstacles, disquieting thoughts, and enticements. They should be ignored, bypassed, and treated lightly. Strengthen your habits, stick to your discipline, improve your inner administration; mix more in the company of the good and the godly. Some people condemn the six passions as dire enemies and advise you to eject them outright. But I would advise you to keep them with you as docile servants, useful for your purposes. Dislike those who slight the name of the Lord and tell you that it is a hollow, meaningless sound; dislike them so much that you avoid them forever! Attachment can be used to fix your heart on the Lord; be fascinated by the overwhelming beauty of His form, reflected in all the loveliness of nature. Kama (desire) is not a vice, for it is given the status of one of the goals of human endeavour (Purushartha). Develop desire, but not for the material, the momentary. Desire for the deathless, the indestructible - the desire for the steady development of faith in the shastras (holy scriptures), as a means to this.