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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">But it is possible also to pass to that through a certain experience of Nirvana, an absolute silence of mind and cessation of its activities, constructions, representations which can be so complete that not only to the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">silent</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;">but also to the passive senses the whole world is emptied of its solidity and reality and things appear only as unsubstantial forms without any real habitations or else floating in something that is a nameless Infinite: this Infinite or else something still beyond is That which alone is real; an absolute calm, peace, liberation would be the resulting state. Action would continue, but no initiation or participation in it by the silent liberated consciousness; a nameless Power would do all until there began the descent from above which would transform the consciousness, making its silence and freedom a basis for a luminous knowledge, action, Ananda. </span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-supermind-or-supramental#p22</ref>

=== Observing Thoughts, Not Throwing Them Back ===

<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 ===

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 ===