The psychic being is the representative of the Divine in the human being...The Divine is in you but you are not fully conscious of it... it acts now as an influence rather than as a Presence. It should be a conscious Presence; you should be able at each moment to ask yourself what is... how... how the Divine sees. It is like that: first how the Divine sees, and then how the Divine wills, and then how the Divine acts. And it is not to go away into inaccessible regions, it is right here. Only, for the moment, all the old habits and the general unconsciousness put a kind of covering which prevents us from seeing and feeling. You must... you must lift, you must lift that up. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/8-february-1973#p3</ref>
===Surrender to DivineVigilance===
…the Divine Force…has to take up an immense mass of conflicting forces, conditions, habits and movements of Nature and out of it arrive It is obvious that things which are a long habit cannot go at once. Especially the result of speech is a higher consciousness on earth thing which in most people is largely automatic and a higher state…The powers not under their control. It is the vigilance that held establishes the field up to now have to control, so one must be given their chance to opposeon guard against the danger of which you speak, so that the problem may slacking of the vigilance. Only the more it can be solved a quiet and unmixed, not evaded or turned into a sham fight or unreal game without significance. Therefore there is a sadhana to be donean anxious vigilance, there is a resistance to be overcome, a choice made between the higher and the lower statebetter. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2931/thespeech-divineand-forceyoga#p12p35</ref>
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…when the condition is good, the lower movements have a habit of subsiding and become quiescent, hiding as it were,—or they go out of the nature and remain at a distance. But if they see that the sadhak is losing his vigilance, then they slowly begin to rise or draw near, most often unseen, and when he is quite off his guard, surge up suddenly or make a sudden irruption. This continues until the whole nature, mental, vital, physical down to the very subconscient is enlightened, conscious, full of the Divine. Till that happens, one must always remain watchful in a sleepless vigilance.
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...one must have a great clear-sightedness to become aware that one is enclosed in all these knots which hold one in bondage. And then, when one is aware that there's something altogether tightly closed in there— one imagines his will to be a very sharp sword-blade, and with all one's force one strikes a blow on this knot, and this produces a result. … Reject―the pull of the whole set of resistances, old human habits, preferences, of all that holds you narrowly closed in. So when you grow aware of this, you can concentrate and call the divine Force and the Grace and strike a good blow on this formation…. And at that moment you must resolve that you will no longer listen to these things, that you will listen only to the divine Consciousness and will do no other work except the divine work without worrying about personal results, free from all attachment, free from all preference, free from all wish for success, power, satisfaction, vanity, all this... All this must disappear and you must see only the divine Will incarnated in your will and making you act. Then, in this way, you are cured. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0614/3-november-1954sincerity#p15p35</ref>
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There are many different parts in the being which sometimes are quite independent The disabilities of one another your past character and take hold of the consciousness almost in turn mind and sometimes even in an altogether regular ordervital habits need not discourage you.. So, when part of the being has goodwill and already a kind of perception of what the divine force is, you see, this opens the being and puts it into contact with this force. But it is It may not always there. There are other parts which come be easy to the front, which have defects, bad habits, get rid of them altogether and which can veil the consciousness completely. But it may take time; but if one keeps the memory of the part which was open, one can keep the opening you persist and refuse all the same, though outwardly the part that is active is not particularly interested justification and not even able all possibility of return to understand. But these things, you are bound in the other part can continue end to be open and receive the forceconquer. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0631/10vigilance-novemberresolution-will-and-the-divine-1954help#p6p11</ref>
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…if …when one generously makes an offering of begins, one's defecthas no reason to stop, vice or bad habitone begins with one hour a day, then one has the joy but this becomes a kind of making an offering and one receives in exchange the force to replace what has been givennecessity, by a better habit and truer vibrationone continues quite naturally. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1603/13-june-1960-1impurity#p4p22</ref>
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…say to the Lord (in all sincerity, of course), "It's up is difficult to You. Rid me of this." And it is very effective. Very effective…certain inveterate little habits—so stupid, but so ingrained you can't get rid of them. Then, while doing japa or walking or meditating or whatever, suddenly the flame flares up and... (you have really had enough of it; it disgusts you, you want it to change, you really want the change) and you say to the Lord, "I can't do it on my own." (You very sincerely know you can't do it; you have tried and tried and tried and have achieved exactly nothing—you can't do it.) "Well then, I offer it to You—You do it." Just like that. And all at once you see the thing fading awayhabits. It is simply wonderfulThey must be faced with a steady determination. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0314/may-31-1962determination#p13p1</ref>
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The divine life and the transformation of the lower human into the higher divine nature must Habits are difficult to overcome. If any have to be made the sole aim of all the life. No attachments, desires or habits got rid of the mind, heart, vital being or body should be clung to which come in the way of this one aspiration and one object of the life. One must be ready to renounce all these completely as soon as the demand comes from above very persistent and vigilant and from the divine Shaktinot yield or let them have their way. It is only when one does that for a very long time that they go. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2931/qualitiesdifficulties-neededof-forthe-physical-sadhananature#p6p75</ref>
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The method of detachment from Even when it all becomes clear... the insistence of all mental habit stays on and vital and physical claims and calls and impulsions, a concentration in it keeps coming back. So you push it back: it rises again from the heartsubconscient; you chase it away: it comes back from outside. So if for one minute you aren't on your guard, austerity, self-purification and rejection of the old it shows up again— Sri Aurobindo…said that he who has purified his mind movements and life movements, rejection of the ego of desire, rejection of false needs so on and false habitsso forth, are all useful aids who is ready to this difficult passage: but the strongest, most central way work towards Perfection …"He is to found all such or other methods on a self-offering ready and patient for lapses and surrender the recurrence of ourselves old errors, and of our parts of nature to the Divine Beinghe works quietly, waiting patiently till the Ishwaratime comes for them to leave. "<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/2204/thenovember-triple20-transformation1963#p19p76</ref>
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Surrender means to consecrate everything in oneself to …if you are inattentive, you lose the Divinebenefit of vigilance, to offer all one is and has, that if you do not to insist on one's ideas, desires, continue in the good habits etc.that you acquire, but to allow the divine Truth they are useless—that is to replace them by its knowledgesay, will and action everywhereyou must persevere. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2903/surrenderimpurity#p4p24</ref>
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It is not by taking a mere mental attitude that this can be done When one wants to change something of the material life, whether the character or even by any number the functioning of inner experiences which leave the outer man as he was. It is this outer man who has to open, to surrender and to change. His every least movementorgans or habits, habitone must have an unfaltering perseverance, action has to be surrendered, seen, held up and exposed ready to begin again a hundred times the divine Light, offered to same thing with the divine Force for its old forms and motives to be destroyed and same intensity with which one did it the divine Truth first time and the action of the transforming consciousness of the Divine Mother to take their placeas though one had never done it before. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2907/surrender30-march-1955#p68p22</ref>
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Reject―the pull ...the later one begins, the more one must be prepared to meet bad habits that have to be corrected, rigidities to be made supple, malformations to be rectified. And this preparatory work will require much patience and perseverance before one can start on a constructive programme for the harmonisation of the form and its movements. But if you keep alive within you the ideal of beauty that is to be realised, sooner or later you are sure to reach the old human habitsgoal you have set yourself. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1412/sincerityphysical-education#p35p13</ref>
===VigilanceDetachment===
It To cling to what you think you know, to cling to what you feel, to cling to what you like, to cling to your habits, to cling to your so-called needs, to cling to the world as it is obvious , that things which are a long habit cannot go at once. Especially the speech is a thing which in most people is largely automatic 's what binds you hand and not under their controlfoot. It is the vigilance You must undo all that establishes the control, so one must be on guard against thing after the danger of which you speak, the slacking of the vigilanceother. Only Undo all the more it can be a quiet and unmixed, not an anxious vigilance, the betterbonds. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3105/speechoctober-and7-yoga1964#p35p44</ref>
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You may get the habit or faculty of watching your movements in such a way that you see the impulse to action coming and can see too its nature, <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/becoming-conscious-in-work#p32</ref>
Detach means that the Witness in oneself has to stand back and refuse to look on the movement as his own (the soul's own) and look on it as a habit of past nature or an invasion of general Nature. Then to deal with it as such. It may seem difficult, but it comes perfectly well by trying persistently. <centerref>~http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/inner-detachment-and-the-witness-attitude#p6</centerref> ===Plasticity===
…when the condition What is needed is good, the lower movements have a habit general plasticity of subsiding and become quiescentthe mind, hiding as it werethe vital,—or they go out of the nature and remain at physical consciousness, a distance. But if they see that readiness to give up all attachment to these things, to accept whatever the sadhak is losing his vigilance, then they slowly begin higher consciousness brings down with it however contrary to rise or draw nearone's own received ideas, most often unseenfeelings, and when he is quite off his guard, surge up suddenly or make a sudden irruptionhabits of nature. This continues until The greater the plasticity in any part of the whole nature, mental, vital, physical down to the very subconscient is enlightened, conscious, full of less the Divineresistance there. Till that happens, one must always remain watchful in a sleepless vigilance.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/vigilancethe-resolutionvital-willbeing-and-the-divinevital-helpconsciousness#p4p15</ref>
===PerseveranceSilence/Going Within===
The disabilities …when we cease to reason and go deep into ourselves, into that secrecy where the activity of your past character and mind and vital habits need not discourage you...It may not be easy is stilled, that this other consciousness becomes really manifest to us—however imperfectly owing to get rid our long habit of them altogether mental reaction and it may take time; but if you persist mental limitation. Then we can know surely in an increasing illumination that which we had uncertainly conceived by the pale and refuse all justification flickering light of Reason. Knowledge waits seated beyond mind and all possibility of return to these thingsintellectual reasoning, you are bound throned in the end to conquerluminous vast of illimitable self-vision. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3121/vigilance-resolution-will-and-the-divine-helpmaya#p11p19</ref>
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…when one beginsIt is only if you have been in the habit of going within yourself, one has no reason of referring to the inner psychic consciousness and letting it decide in yourself what you want to stopdo, one begins that you do it with one hour certitude, without hesitation, without a dayquestion, nothing. You know that this is what must be done and there is no question about it; but this becomes a kind of necessitythat's the only case. Therefore it is only when you let your psychic guide you consciously, constantly, a habit that you are able to do consciously and one continues quite naturallyconstantly the right thing; but that's the only case. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0307/impurity29-june-1955#p22p33</ref>
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It Higher Mind is difficult to get rid one of all habitsthe planes of the spiritual mind, the first and lowest of them; it is above the normal mental level. They must Inner mind is that which lies behind the surface mind (our ordinary mentality) and can only be faced with a steady determinationdirectly experienced (apart from its vrittis in the surface mind such as philosophy, poetry, idealism etc.) by sadhana, by breaking down the habit of being on the surface and by going deeper within.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1428/determinationclassification-of-the-parts-of-the-being#p1p12</ref>
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Habits are difficult …the Divine Force…has to overcome. If any take up an immense mass of conflicting forces, conditions, habits and movements of Nature and out of it arrive at the result of a higher consciousness on earth and a higher state…The powers that held the field up to now have to be got rid ofgiven their chance to oppose, one must so that the problem may be very persistent and vigilant solved and not yield evaded or let them have their wayturned into a sham fight or unreal game without significance. It Therefore there is only when one does that for a very long time that they gosadhana to be done, there is a resistance to be overcome, a choice made between the higher and the lower state. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3129/difficulties-of-the-physicaldivine-natureforce#p75p12</ref>
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Even when it all becomes clear... the habit stays one must have a great clear-sightedness to become aware that one is enclosed in all these knots which hold one in bondage. And then, when one is aware that there's something altogether tightly closed in there— one imagines his will to be a very sharp sword-blade, and with all one's force one strikes a blow on this knot, and it keeps coming backthis produces a result. So you push it back: it rises again from … the subconscient; whole set of resistances, habits, preferences, of all that holds you chase it away: it comes back from outsidenarrowly closed in. So if for one minute when you aren't on your guardgrow aware of this, it shows up again— Sri Aurobindo…said that he who has purified his mind you can concentrate and call the divine Force and the Grace and so strike a good blow on and so forththis formation…. And at that moment you must resolve that you will no longer listen to these things, who is ready that you will listen only to the divine Consciousness and will do no other work except the divine work towards Perfection …"He is ready and patient without worrying about personal results, free from all attachment, free from all preference, free from all wish for lapses success, power, satisfaction, vanity, all this... All this must disappear and you must see only the recurrence of old errorsdivine Will incarnated in your will and making you act. Then, and he works quietlyin this way, waiting patiently till the time comes for them to leaveyou are cured."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0406/3-november-20-19631954#p76p15</ref>
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…if you There are many different parts in the being which sometimes are inattentivequite independent of one another and take hold of the consciousness almost in turn and sometimes even in an altogether regular order. So, you lose when part of the benefit being has goodwill and already a kind of vigilanceperception of what the divine force is, you see, this opens the being and that if you do puts it into contact with this force. But it is not continue in always there. There are other parts which come to the good front, which have defects, bad habits , and which can veil the consciousness completely. But if one keeps the memory of the part which was open, one can keep the opening all the same, though outwardly the part that you acquire, they are useless—that is active is not particularly interested and not even able to say, you must persevereunderstand. But the other part can continue to be open and receive the force. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0306/impurity10-november-1954#p24p6</ref>
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One must control …if one generously makes an offering of one's defect, vice or bad habitshabit, then one has the old habitsjoy of making an offering and one receives in exchange the force to replace what has been given, for by a very long time for them to drop off better and the character to changetruer vibration. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0416/2113-june-april1960-19511#p5p4</ref>
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When one wants …say to change something the Lord (in all sincerity, of course), "It's up to You. Rid me of this." And it is very effective. Very effective…certain inveterate little habits—so stupid, but so ingrained you can't get rid of the material lifethem. Then, whether the character while doing japa or walking or the functioning of the organs meditating or habitswhatever, one must suddenly the flame flares up and... (you have an unfaltering perseverancereally had enough of it; it disgusts you, be ready you want it to begin again a hundred times change, you really want the same thing with change) and you say to the same intensity with which one did Lord, "I can't do it on my own." (You very sincerely know you can't do it the first time ; you have tried and tried and tried and as though one had never done have achieved exactly nothing—you can't do it.) "Well then, I offer it to You—You do it before." Just like that. And all at once you see the thing fading away. It is simply wonderful. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0703/30may-march31-19551962#p22p13</ref>
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The divine life and the transformation of the lower human into the higher divine nature must be made the sole aim of all the life. No attachments, desires or habits of the mind, heart, vital being or body should be clung to which come in the way of this one aspiration and one object of the life. One must be ready to renounce all these completely as soon as the demand comes from above and from the divine Shakti. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/qualities-needed-for-sadhana#p6</ref>
...the later one begins, the more one must be prepared to meet bad habits that have to be corrected, rigidities to be made supple, malformations to be rectified. And this preparatory work will require much patience and perseverance before one can start on a constructive programme for the harmonisation of the form and its movements. But if you keep alive within you the ideal of beauty that is to be realised, sooner or later you are sure to reach the goal you have set yourself. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/physical-education#p13~</refcenter>
===Plasticity=== What is needed is a general plasticity The method of detachment from the mind, the insistence of all mental and vital, the and physical consciousnessclaims and calls and impulsions, a readiness to give up all attachment to these things, to accept whatever concentration in the higher consciousness brings down with it however contrary to one's own received ideasheart, feelingsausterity, habits self-purification and rejection of nature. The greater the plasticity in any part old mind movements and life movements, rejection of the natureego of desire, the less the resistance there. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vital-being-rejection of false needs and-vital-consciousness#p15</ref> ===Detachment=== To cling to what you think you knowfalse habits, are all useful aids to cling to what you feelthis difficult passage: but the strongest, most central way is to cling to what you like, to cling to your habits, to cling to your sofound all such or other methods on a self-called needs, to cling offering and surrender of ourselves and of our parts of nature to the world as it isDivine Being, that's what binds you hand and foot. You must undo all that, one thing after the other. Undo all the bondsIshwara. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0522/octoberthe-7triple-1964transformation#p44p19</ref>
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Detach Surrender means that the Witness to consecrate everything in oneself has to stand back the Divine, to offer all one is and refuse has, not to look insist on the movement as his own (the soulone's own) and look on it as a habit of past nature or an invasion of general Nature. Then to deal with it as suchideas, desires, habits etc. It may seem difficult, but it comes perfectly well by trying persistently. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/inner-detachment-and-the-witness-attitude#p6</ref> ===Silence/Going Within=== …when we cease to reason and go deep into ourselves, into that secrecy where allow the activity of mind is stilled, that this other consciousness becomes really manifest to us—however imperfectly owing divine Truth to our long habit of mental reaction and mental limitation. Then we can know surely in an increasing illumination that which we had uncertainly conceived replace them by the pale its knowledge, will and flickering light of Reasonaction everywhere. Knowledge waits seated beyond mind and intellectual reasoning, throned in the luminous vast of illimitable self-vision.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2129/the-divine-mayasurrender#p19p4</ref>
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Higher Mind It is one of the planes of the spiritual mind, the first and lowest of them; it is above the normal not by taking a mere mental level. Inner mind is attitude that which lies behind the surface mind (our ordinary mentality) and this can only be directly experienced (apart from its vrittis in the surface mind such as philosophy, poetry, idealism etc.) done or even by sadhana, by breaking down the habit any number of being on inner experiences which leave the surface and by going deeper within. <ref>http://incarnatewordouter man as he was.in/cwsa/28/classification-of-the-parts-of-the-being#p12</ref> ===Calling Upon the Psychic Guide Within=== It is only if you have been in the habit of going within yourselfthis outer man who has to open, of referring to the inner psychic consciousness surrender and letting it decide in yourself what you want to dochange. His every least movement, that you do it with certitudehabit, without hesitationaction has to be surrendered, without a questionseen, nothing. You know that this is what must be done held up and there is no question about it; but that's exposed to the only case. Therefore it is only when you let your psychic guide you consciouslydivine Light, constantly, that you are able offered to the divine Force for its old forms and motives to do consciously be destroyed and the divine Truth and constantly the right thing; but that's action of the transforming consciousness of the only caseDivine Mother to take their place.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0729/29-june-1955surrender#p33p68</ref>
==How to Correct Habits?==