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<div style="color:#000000;">To experience it completely, one needs to first understand what the mind is. </div>

=== The mind ===

<div style="color:#000000;">When the objects (biases) are removed and movements (thoughts) cease in the substance called the mind, the state entered is mental silence. The same becomes present when thoughts come from outside and cross the mind as a flight of birds crosses the sky in a windless air. In such a silent mind, movements (thoughts) passes, disturbs nothing and leaves no trace</div>

<div style="color:#000000;">The conventional meaning of silence can direct one into thinking that mental silence occurs when the mind shuts down. Interestingly, it is the opposite. Mental silence is when the mind is truly open. Receptivity is at its highest when there are no thoughts. This is the receptivity to intuition and direct knowing.</div>

<div style="color:#000000;">Sri Aurobindo says:</div>

<div style="color:#000000;">“The stillness of the mind means, first, the falling to rest of the habitual thought movements... which agitate this mind-substance.</div>

<div style="color:#000000;">But, one sees, when one looks more closely at it, that the mind substance is still in a constant state of very subtle, formless but potentially formative vibration… </div>