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At the same time we get rid of the egoistic ignorance; for so long as we are at any point bound by that, the divine life must either be unattainable or imperfect in its self-expression. For the ego is a falsification of our true individuality by a limiting self-identification of it with this life, this mind, this body: it is a separation from other souls which shuts us up in our own individual experience and prevents us from living as the universal individual: it is a separation from God, our highest Self, who is the one Self in all existences and the divine Inhabitant within us. As our consciousness changes into the height and depth and wideness of the spirit, the ego can no longer survive there: it is too small and feeble to subsist in that vastness and dissolves into it; for it exists by its limits and perishes by the loss of its limits.
<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). Out of the sevenfold ignorance towards the sevenfold knowledge. In The life divine II.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/out-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-sevenfold-knowledge#p16</ref>
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Absolved in the cosmic wideness, released from ego, his personality reduced to a point of working of the universal Force, himself calm, liberated, deathless in universality, motionless in the Witness Self even while outspread without limit in unending Space and Time, he can enjoy in the world the freedom of the Timeless.
<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (1999). The master of the work. In The synthesis of yoga I.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-master-of-the-work#p24</ref>
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Among human beings, the most widely spread disease is mental narrowness. They understand only what is in their own consciousness and cannot tolerate anything else.
(The Mother, 24 September 1953)<ref>The Mother. (2003). Narrowness and one-sidedness. In Words of the mother II.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/narrowness-and-one-sidedness#p10</ref>
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These desires, these passions have no personality, there is nothing in them or their action that is peculiar to you; they manifest in the same way in everyone. The obscure movements of the mind too, the doubts and errors and difficulties that cloud the personality and diminish its expansion and fulfilment,(The Mother, 4 August 1929).<ref>The Mother. (2002). 4 August 1929. In Questions and answers (1929-1931).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/4-august-1929#p5</ref>
====Develop Receptivity====
We are at a decisive hour in the history of the earth. It is preparing for the coming of the superman and because of this the old way of life is losing its value. We must strike out boldly on the path of the future despite its new demands. The pettinesses once tolerable, are tolerable no longer. We must widen ourselves to receive what is going to come.(The Mother,29 December 1971)<ref>The Mother. (2003). Series fourteen - to a sadhak. In Some Answers from the mother.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/29-december-1971#p1</ref>
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Man, the individual, has to become and to live as a universal being; his limited mental consciousness has to widen to the superconscient unity in which each embraces all; his narrow heart has to learn the infinite embrace and replace its lusts and discords by universal love and his restricted vital being to become equal to the whole shock of the universe upon it and capable of universal delight; his very physical being has to know itself as no separate entity but as one with and sustaining in itself the whole flow of the indivisible Force that is all things; his whole nature has to reproduce in the individual the unity, the harmony, the oneness-in-all of the supreme Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). Supermind mind and the overmind maya. In The life divine I.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/delight-of-existence-the-solution#p18</ref> 
====Develop Equality ====
In the spiritual ascent this power of the consciousness and its will over the instruments, the control of spirit and inner mind over the outer mentality and the nervous being and the body, increases immensely; a tranquil and wide equality of the spirit to all shocks and contacts comes in and becomes the habitual poise, and this can pass from the mind to the vital parts and establish there too an immense and enduring largeness of strength and peace; even in the body this state may form itself and meet inwardly the shocks of grief and pain and all kinds of suffering. Even, a power of willed physical insensibility can intervene or a power of mental separation from all shock and injury can be acquired which shows that the ordinary reactions and the debile submission of the bodily self to the normal habits of response of material Nature are not obligatory or unalterable.
<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). The gnostic being. In The life divine II.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p25</ref>
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A larger psychic and emotional relation with God and the world, more deep and plastic in its essence, more wide and embracing in its movements, more capable of taking up in its sweep the whole of life, is imperative.
<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (1999). The ascent of the sacrifice II. In The synthesis of yoga I.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-i#p18</ref>
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True repose comes from the widening, the universalisation of the consciousness. Become as vast as the world and you will always be at rest. In the thick of action, in the very midst of the battle, the effort, you will know the repose of infinity and eternity.
<ref>The Mother. (2003). 20 March 1957. In Questions and answers (1957-1958).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/20-march-1957#p19</ref>
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And when you enter into this consciousness where you see all things in a single look, the infinite multitude of relations between the Divine and men, you see how wonderful all that is, in all details. You can look at the history of mankind and see how much the Divine has evolved according to what men have understood, desired, hoped, dreamed and how He was materialist with the materialist and how He grows every day and becomes nearer, more luminous according as human consciousness widens itself. Each one is free to choose. The perfection of this endless variety of relations of man with God throughout the history of the world is an ineffable marvel. And all that together is only one second of the total manifestation of the Divine.
(The Mother, 1970)<ref>The Mother. (2013). Relations with others. In Words of the mother I.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/relations-with-others#p94</ref>
==== Develop Peace and Calmness and Silence ====
But in order that it may go on developing, you must become more and more quiet, more and more able to hold whatever comes without getting too eager and excited. Peace and calmness are the first thing, and with it wideness—in the peace you can bear whatever love or Ananda comes, whatever strength comes or whatever knowledge.
<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2012). The true being and the true consciousness. In Letters on yoga I.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-true-being-and-the-true-consciousness#p15</ref>
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It is as though you were in the midst of a big cyclone. It happens at times that the wind is so violent that you are not able to stand—you have to lie down and wait till it blows over. Now, the divine forces are a thousand times stronger than a cyclonic wind. If you do not have in you a very wide receptivity, an extremely solid basis of calmness, of equality of soul and inner peace, they come and carry you away like a gale and you cannot resist them. It is the same thing with light; some people get a pain in the eyes when they look at the sun and are obliged to put on dark glasses because sunlight is too strong for them. But this is merely sunlight. When you are able to look at the supramental light, it appears to you so brilliant that sunlight seems like a black stain in comparison. One must have strong eyes and a solid brain to bear that, one must be well prepared, established in something extremely calm and vast—it is as though one had such a strong basis of tranquillity that when the storm passes, when the light comes with a great intensity, one is able to remain immobile and receive what one can without being knocked over.(The Mother, 12 February 1951)<ref>The Mother. (2002). 12 february 1951. In Questions and answers (1950-1951).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/12-february-1951#p5</ref>
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It is by full entry into this wideness of the Self that cessation of mental activity becomes possible; one gets the inner Silence. After that this inner Silence can remain even when there is activity of any kind; the being remains silent within, the action goes on in the instruments and one receives all the necessary indications and execution of action whether mental, vital or physical from a higher source without the fundamental peace and calm of the Spirit being troubled.
<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2013). The newness of the integral yoga. In Letters on yoga II.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-newness-of-the-integral-yoga#p5</ref> 
====Condition for Transformation====
Wideness and calmness are the foundation of the Yogic consciousness and the best condition for inner growth and experience. If a wide calm can be established in the physical consciousness, occupying and filling the very body and all its cells, that can become the basis for its transformation; in fact, without this wideness and calmness the transformation is hardly possible.
<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2013). Peace - the basis of the sadhana. In Letters on yoga II.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace-the-basis-of-the-sadhana#p18</ref>
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But once this individualisation, that is, this awareness of the inner truth is complete, it becomes possible, by an inner identification, to re-establish in the multiplicity the original unity; that is the raison d'être of the universe as we perceive it. The universe has been made so that this phenomenon may take place. The Supreme has manifested Himself to Himself so as to become aware of Himself.
(The Mother, 2 March 1951)<ref>The Mother. (2002). 3 March 1951. In Questions and answers (1950-1951).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/3-march-1951#p29</ref>
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It is evident that if we can live thus deeper within and put out steadily the inner forces into the outer instrumentation or raise ourselves to dwell on higher and wider levels and bring their powers to bear on physical existence, not merely receive influences descending from them, which is all we can now do, there could begin a heightening of our force of conscious being so as to create a new principle of consciousness, a new range of activities, new values for all things, a widening of our consciousness and life, a taking up and transformation of the lower grades of our existence,—in brief, the whole evolutionary process by which the Spirit in Nature creates a higher type of being. Each step could mean a pace, however distant from the goal, or a close approach leading to a larger and more divine being, a larger and more divine force and consciousness, knowledge and will, sense of existence and delight in existence; there could be an initial unfolding towards the divine life. All religion, all occult knowledge, all supernormal (as opposed to abnormal) psychological experience, all Yoga, all psychic experience and discipline are sign-posts and directions pointing us upon that road of progress of the occult self-unfolding spirit.
<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). The evolutionary process - ascent and integration. In The life divine II.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-evolutionary-process-ascent-and-integration#p25</ref>
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