In a Zoom meeting with Ernesto, Carlos and José of ‘Yo Soy Tu Mismo’ (a group of Spanish devotees of Bhagavan Sri Ramana) on 3th August 2022, Michael James discusses the question:
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If this is a path of happiness, how is it that devotees feel unfit, feelings of failure, being full of flaws or unsuitable for this path? Are those feelings an inevitable effect of looking for the restoration of our natural condition or that shows we are still highly immature spiritually speaking?

This episode can also be watched as a video, 2022-08-03 Yo Soy Tu Mismo: However much we may fail, we must persevere in being self-attentive, and a more compressed audio copy in Opus format (which can be listened to in the VLC media player and some other apps) can be downloaded from here.