For a larger mental being is there within us, a larger inner vital being, even a larger inner subtle-physical being other than our surface body-consciousness, and by entering into this or becoming it, identifying ourselves with it, we can observe the springs of our thoughts and feelings, the sources and motives of our action, the operative energies that build up our surface personality. For we discover and can know the inner being that secretly thinks and perceives in us, the vital being that secretly feels and acts upon life through us, the subtle-physical being that secretly receives and responds to the contacts of things through our body and its organs. Our surface thought, feeling, emotion is a complexity and confusion of impulsions from within and impacts from outside us; our reason, our organising intelligence can impose on it only an imperfect order: but here within we find the separate sources of our mental, our vital and our physical energisms and can see clearly the pure operations, the distinct powers, the composing elements of each and their interplay in a clear light of self-vision. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/knowledge-by-identity-and-separative-knowledge#p12</ref>
There are many voicesOne can prepare the body through a series of observations, studies, understandings,by showing it examples, making it understand things as one makes a child understand them, either by observing its own movements―but generally, in this, one is comparatively blind!―or by observing those of others. And in a more general way, and all are not divine; this may preparation will be only based on recognised studies, on clear facts. Like this, for instance: that a voice certain number of desire. All that keeps one faithful to the Truth and insists on peacepersons, placed in exactly similar circumstances, purityexperience, devotioneach one of them, sincerityvery different effects. One may go even further: in a given set of definite circumstances, there is a spiritual change certain number of particular, definite individuals, in apparently quite identical conditions, and for some the nature effects are catastrophic, while others escape without any harm. (The Mother, 4 July 1956) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/4-july-1956#p15</ref> One can be listened to with profit; prepare the rest must body through a series of observations, studies, understandings,by showing it examples, making it understand things as one makes a child understand them, either by observing its own movements―but generally, in this, one is comparatively blind!―or by observing those of others. And in a more general way, this preparation will be observed with discrimination based on recognised studies, on clear facts. Like this, for instance: that a certain number of persons, placed in exactly similar circumstances, experience, each one of them, very different effects. One may go even further: in a given set of definite circumstances, there is a certain number of particular, definite individuals, in apparently quite identical conditions, and not followed blindly. Keep for some the fire of aspiration burningeffects are catastrophic, but avoid all impatient hastewhile others escape without any harm. (The Mother, 4 July 1956) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3008/inner-voices4-andjuly-indication1956#p15</ref>
'''The Three Modes of Nature'''