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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">There is an active method by which one looks to see where the thoughts come from and finds they come not from oneself, but from outside the head as it were; if one can detect them coming, then, before they enter, they have to be thrown away altogether.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">This is perhaps the most difficult way and not all can do it, but if it can be done it is the shortest and most powerful road to silence.</span>
 
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Remain very quiet, open your mind and your heart to Sri Aurobindo's influence and mine, withdraw deep into an inner </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''silence'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(which may be had in all circumstances), call me from the depths of this </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''silence'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and you will see me standing there in the centre of your being </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">1</span>
 
<div style="color:#000000;">The peace and silence must settle deep in, so deep that whatever comes from outside can only pass over the surface without troubling the settled calm within—it is good also that the meditation comes of itself. It means that the Yoga-Force is beginning to take up the sadhana.</div>
 
<div style="color:#000000;">They sit down for a few hours in the day and even at night and quiet their mind. This is for them the key to all realisation—a quiet mind that knows how to keep quiet for hours together without roving.</div>