Question: Sometimes I feel that the tiny flame of aspiration has died within me. What has attacked me at this time?

Sri Chinmoy: When you feel that the tiny flame of aspiration has died inside you, it means one of two things: either you have been buffeted by a desire-blow or consciously or unconsciously you have slept in one of your familiar rooms: self-indulgence or ignorance.
Sri Chinmoy, Aspiration-Tree, Aum Publications, 1976