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Regarding the confusions, that confuse a person in hid devotion, that sometimes it seems that he has to do conduct himself such, and afterwards it seems to him that he shouldn’t conduct himself so, rather in a different way etc.[1], and sometimes a person has greater confusions than this. He spoke up and said: For what is there to be confused? However one does – he does, so as long as he doesn’t do evil Heaven forbid (Yiddish: vee men tit, tit men, uvee metit nit kain shlechtz chas vishuloam).[2]
[1] These confusions were brought up previously in article 255.
[2] See also Likutay Moharan, volume 2, Torah-teaching 215: He recounted that he had great strengthening in his devotion, and he didn’t allow himself to be confused whatsoever. And his way was, that he would select for himself some correct (/straight/upright/just) path how to conduct in the devotion of Hashem, and he would begin to conduct himself with these conducts and in the fashion that he chose for himself. And he would conduct himself with these conducts for some time, and all that other thoughts would come to confuse him from this conduct that he should conduct himself in a different way, he wouldn’t listen to these thoughts whatsoever, and he would push these thoughts out of his mind, and he didn’t allow them to enter his mind whatsoever, rather, he was extremely strong and determined in his mind, and he would go and conduct in the way he had chosen, for some time. However, afterwards, in the course of time, after some weeks, there would return and come to his mind some thoughts, that he should conduct (himself) in a different way, and then, after a long time had already transpired, then, he would settle (-assess) himself, and he chose for himself some other way and arrangement, according to what appeared to him then. However, he didn’t allow himself to be confused every time from devotion to devotion, rather, he was persistent to go in one way for a long time, as explained above.
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