Read more about '''[[Speech Compilation|Speech]]''' from the works of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
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=Importance of Speech=
The question of mental austerity immediately brings to mind long meditations leading to control of thought and culminating in inner silence. This aspect of yogic discipline is too well known to need dwelling upon. But there is another aspect of the subject which is usually given less attention, and that is control of speech. Apart from a very few exceptions, only absolute silence is set in opposition to loose talk. And yet it is a far greater and far more fruitful austerity to control one's speech than to abolish it altogether. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-four-austerities-and-the-four-liberations#p33</ref>
==Control of Speech==
Yes, control of the speech is very necessary for the physical change.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p30</ref>Even those who have a strong inner life, take a long time before they can connect it with the outer speech and action. Outer speech belongs to the externalising mind—that is why it is so difficult to connect it with the inner life.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p1</ref>
Not to allow the impulse of speech to assert itself too much or say anything without reflection, but to speak always with a conscious control and only what is necessary and helpful.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p38</ref>
If you can succeed in controlling the speech often,—it needs a constant vigilance,—you will finally find that the control extends itself and can in the long run always intervene.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p36</ref>
Speech breaks out as the expression of the vital and its habits without caring to wait for the control of the mind; It is therefore this tendency that must cease in the vital itself. Not to be under the control of the impulse to speech. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p47</ref>
===Role of Speech in Transformation===
It would be better to get full control of the speech—it is an important step towards going inward and developing a true inner and Yogic consciousness.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p28</ref>
The complete truth of speech is very important for the sadhak and a great help for bringing Truth into the consciousness. It is at the same time difficult to bring the speech under control; for people are accustomed to speak what comes to them and not to supervise and control what they say. There is something mechanical about speech and to bring it to the level of the highest part of the consciousness is never easy. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p33</ref>
=Cultivating Control of Speech=