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<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is ordinarily considered that the Yogin should draw away from action as much as possible and especially that too much action is a hindrance because it draws off the energies outward. To a certain extent this is true; and we must note farther that when the mental Purusha takes up the attitude of mere witness and observer, a tendency to silence, solitude, physical calm and bodily inaction grows upon the being. So long as this is not associated with inertia, incapacity or unwillingness to act, in a word, with the growth of the tamasic quality, all this is to the good.</div><div style="color:#0066cc;"><uspan><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p7</ref></u></div>

<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is possible for the Purusha to use it on the mental plane itself for a constant self-observation, self-development, self-modification, to sanction, reject, alter, bring out new formulations of the nature and establish a calm and disinterested action, a high and pure sattwic balance and rhythm of its energy, a personality perfected in the sattwic principle.</div><div style="color:#0066cc;"><uspan><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-divine-shakti#p9</ref></u></div>

<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">..with regard to the movements and experiences of the body the mind will come to know the Purusha seated within it as, first, the witness or observer of the movements and, secondly, the knower or perceiver of the experiences. It will cease to consider in thought or feel in sensation these movements and experiences as its own but rather consider and feel them as not its own, as operations of Nature governed by the qualities of Nature and their interaction upon each other.</div><div style="color:#0066cc;"><uspan><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p4</ref></u></div> <div style="color:#000000;">The Purusha and Prakriti are on the mental level as in the rest of our being closely joined and much involved in each other and we are not able to distinguish clearly soul and nature. But in the purer substance of mind we can more easily discern the dual strain. The mental Purusha is naturally able in its own native principle of mind to detach itself, as we have seen, from the workings of its Prakriti and there is then a division of our being between a consciousness that observes and can reserve its willpower and an energy full of the substance of consciousness that takes the forms of knowledge, will and feeling. This detachment gives at its highest a certain freedom from the compulsion of the soulby its mental nature.</div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-divine-shakti#p8</ref></u></span>