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==Ahamkara/Ahankara==
The lower self movement of Mind in Nature is in bondage thus able to its past; conceive of the object as the reality and the Inhabitant as limited and determined by the appearances of the higher is lord object. It conceives of the pastobject, not as the present universe in one of its frontal appearances, but as itself a separate existence standing out from the Cosmos and different in being from all the futurerest of it. So the will It conceives similarly of the lower self Inhabitant. This is born the illusion of ''ahankara'' and limited by ''ahankara''ignorance which falsifies all realities. The illusion is called ahaṁkāra, but the will separative ego-sense which makes each being conceive of the higher self is beyond ''ahankara'' and cannot be limited by ititself as an independent personality. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/0717/the-needinhabiting-ofgodhead-life-theand-momentaction#p2p13</ref>
Under the conditions of mind, life & body, ahankara is born, the subjective or objective form of consciousness is falsely taken for self-existent being, the body for an independent reality & the ego for an independent personality; the one loses itself in us in its multiplicity & when it recovers its unity, finds it difficult, owing to the nature of mind, to preserve its play of multiplicity. Therefore when we are absorbed in world, we miss God in Himself; when we seek God, we miss Him in the world. Our business is to break down & dissolve the mental ego & get back to our divine unity without losing our power of individual & multiple existence in the universe. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/12/the-entire-purpose-of-yoga#p10</ref>
Attachment to things : the physical rejection of them is not the best way to get rid of it. Accept what is given you, ask for what is needed and think no more of it - attaching no importance, using them when you have, not troubled if you have not. That is the best way of getting rid of the attachment. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/24/transformation-of-the-vital-xi#p20</ref>
==AUM/Om==
The three letters represent the Brahman or Supreme Self in its three degrees of status, the Waking Soul, the Dream Soul and the Sleep Soul and the whole potent sound rises towards that which is beyond status as beyond activity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/concentration#p3</ref>
OM is the mantra, the expressive sound-symbol of the Brahman Consciousness in its four domains from the Turiya to the external or material plane. The function of a mantra is to create vibrations in the inner consciousness that will prepare it for the realisation of what the mantra symbolises and is supposed indeed to carry within itself. The mantra OM should therefore lead towards the opening of the consciousness to the sight and feeling of the One Consciousness in all material things, in the inner being and in the supraphysical worlds, in the causal plane above now superconscient to us and, finally, the supreme liberated transcendence above all cosmic existence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/sadhana-through-meditation-iii#p2</ref>
==Austerity==
Austerity, spiritual discipline. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-265-266-267-268-269#p7</ref>
A premature and excessive physical austerity, tapasyā, may endanger the process of the sadhana by establishing a disturbance and abnormality of the forces in the different parts of the system. A great energy may pour into the mental and vital parts, but the nerves and the body may be overstrained and lose the strength to support the play of these higher energies.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/24/transformation-of-the-physical-v#p34</ref>