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==Stillness in the Physical Being==

You don’t understand how one can be immobile and strong at the same time, is that what is bothering you? Well, I reply that the greatest strength is in immobility. That is the sovereign power.

There is a tremendous power in immobility: mental immobility, sensorial immobility, physical immobility. If you can remain like a wall, absolutely motionless, everything the other person sends you will immediately fall back upon him. And it has an immediate action. It can stop the arm of the assassin, you understand, it has that strength. Only, one must not just appear to be immobile and yet be boiling inside! That’s not what I mean. I mean an integral immobility. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/22-february-1956?search=physical+immobility#p9,p10,p11,p12</ref>

But here in India, that stillness comes from contempt for the body: it must be nullified as much as possible. Its very existence must be nullified. And that's precisely what Sri Aurobindo rose up against, saying, "No! The body must PARTICIPATE in the experience… BE the Divine, without distinction between the body and the rest-to be the Divine…. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/october-18-1969#p30</ref>

A quietness in the cells of the body, even a sense of immobility (so that the body seems to be moved rather than to move) is a different thing and easily distinguishable from the inertia. The downflow of peace usually brings much of the static Brahman into the consciousness down to the physical, so that one feels the Upanishadic “unmoving it moves”. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p30</ref>

==Stillness in the Mental Being==