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=== Downward Pull of Imperfections ===
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">… </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">the spiritual emergence has to wait at each step for the instruments to be ready; next, as the spiritual formation emerges, it is mixed inextricably with the powers, motives, impulses of an imperfect mind, life and body,—there is a pull on it to accept and serve these powers, motives and impulses, a downward gravitation and perilous mixture, a constant temptation to fall or deviation, at least a fettering, a weight, a retardation; there is a necessity to return upon a step gained in order to bring up something of the nature which hangs back and prevents a farther step; finally, there is, by the very character of mind in which it has to work, a limitation of the emerging spiritual light and power and a compulsion on it to move by segments, to follow one line or another and leave altogether or leave till later on the achievement of its own totality. This hampering, this obstacle of the mind, life and body,—the heavy inertia and persistence of the body, the turbid passions of the life-part, the obscurity and doubting incertitudes, denials, other-formulations of the mind,—is an impediment so great and intolerable that the spiritual urge becomes impatient and tries rigorously to quell these opponents, to reject the life, to mortify the body, to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">silence</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">the</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">mind</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">and achieve its own separate salvation, spirit departing into pure spirit and rejecting from it altogether an undivine and obscure Nature. </span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-evolution-of-the-spiritual-man#p10</ref> 
=== Inferior Mentality ===
When the inner action proceeds after the silence, even if it be then a more predominatingly intuitive thought and movement, the old powers will yet interfere, if not from within, then by a hundred suggestions from without, and an inferior mentality will mix in, will question or obstruct or will try to lay hold on the greater movement and to lower or darken or distort or minimise it in the process. Therefore the necessity of a process of elimination or transformation of the inferior mentality remains always imperative,—or perhaps both at once, an elimination of all that is native to the lower being, its disfiguring accidents, its depreciations of value, its distortions of substance and all else that the greater truth cannot harbour, and a transformation of the essential things our mind derives from the supermind and spirit but represents in the manner of the mental ignorance.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-intuitive-mind#p5</ref> 
== 5. How to Achieve/Practice Mental Silence? ==
=== Willpower ===
What the sadhaka has to do is to be careful to reject and hush these outsiders, so that during the meditation at least the peace and quietude of the mind and vital may be complete. This can be done best if you keep a strong and silent will.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/silence#p15</ref> 
=== Entering a Higher Domain ===
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