But these difficulties--sufficient to crush many a spirit--could hardly
quench the ardour of his burning soul, which was 'hungering and
thirsting' for the establishment of a truth in which he had a firm
Faith. Though the surges would beat against him, he would not give way.
With the true spirit of a _Sadhak_, he devoted himself to the
realisation of the great dream of his life. And, for the next ten years,
the one _tap_, _jap_ and _aradhana_ of his life--the one all-engrossing
idea of his mind--was how to make the plant give testimony by means of
its own autograph.