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As the pure Witness, the soul refuses the function of upholder... the soul only upholds indifferently so long as it must,... But if the attitude of the upholder is fully accepted, an important step forward has been taken towards identification with the active ''Brahman'' and his joy of cosmic being. For the ''Purusha'' has become the active giver of the sanction. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-soul-and-nature#p11</ref>

In the attitude of the Witness there is also a kind of sanction, but it is passive, inert and has no kind of absoluteness about it; but if he consents entirely to uphold, the sanction has become active, even though the soul may do no more than consent to reflect, support and thereby maintain in action all the energies of ''Prakriti''. It may refuse to determine, to select, believing that it is God or Force itself or some Knowledge-Will that selects and determines, and the soul only a witness and upholder and thereby giver of the sanction, ‘anumantā’, but not the possessor and the director of the knowledge and the will, ''jñātā īśvaraḥ''. Then there is a general sanction in the form of an active upholding of whatever is determined by God or universal Will, but there is not an active determination. But if the soul habitually selects and rejects in what is offered to it, it determines; the relatively passive has become an entirely active sanction and is on the way to be an active control. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-soul-and-nature#p12</ref>

What I had in view when I spoke [in the preceding letter] of a systematic sadhana was the adoption of a method which would generalise the whole attitude of the consciousness so as to embrace all its movements at a time instead of working only upon details—although that working is always necessary. I may cite as an example the practice of the separation of the Prakriti and the Purusha, the conscious being standing back detached from all the movements of Nature and observing them as witness and knower and finally as the giver (or refuser) of the sanction and at the highest stage of development, the Ishwara, the pure will, master of the whole nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/work-and-yoga#p26</ref>

===Detachment in the Mind===