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After all real asceticism is hardly possible except in a hut or on the Himalayas. The heart of asceticism, besides, is having no desires or attachment, being indifferent, able to do without things, satisfied with whatever comes. If you asceticise outwardly it becomes a rule of life and you keep it up because it is a rule, for the principle of the thing or for the kudos of it or as a point of honour. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/asceticism-and-the-integral-yoga#p10</ref>
Asceticism for its own sake is not the ideal of this yoga, but self-control in the vital and right order in the material are a very important part of it—and even an ascetic discipline is better for our purpose than a loose absence of true control. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/sadhana-through-work-ix#p2</ref>
==Aspects of the Divine==
The Divine has three aspects for us:
1) It is the Cosmic Self and Spirit that is in and behind all things and beings, from which and in which all is manifested in the universe—although it is now a manifestation in the Ignorance.
2) It is the Spirit and Master of our own being within us whom we have to serve and learn to express his will in all our movements so that we may grow out of the Ignorance into the Light.
3) The Divine is transcendent Being and Spirit, all bliss and light and divine knowledge and power, and towards that highest divine existence and its Light we have to rise and bring down the reality of it more and more into our consciousness and life. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-divine-and-its-aspects#p12,p13,p14,p15</ref>
==Aspiration==