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== Devotion ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Devotion selects the emotional and aesthetic powers of the soul and by turning them all God-ward in a perfect purity, intensity, infinite passion of seeking makes them a means of God-possession in one or many relations of unity with the Divine divine Being. All aim in their own way at a union or unity of the human soul with the supreme Spirit.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-principle-of-the-integral-yoga#p4</ref></span>
<div span style="color:#000000;">The world is full of things that are not pleasing or beautiful, but that is no reason why one should live in a constant feeling of repulsion for these things. All feelings of shrinking and disgust and fear that disturb and weaken the human mind can be overcome. A Yogi has to overcome these reactions; for almost the very first step in Yoga demands that you must keep a perfect equanimity in the presence of all beings and things and happenings. (The Mother, 30 June 1929) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/30-june-1929#p5</ref></divspan>
<div span style="color:#000000;">But if one deeply feels the beauty of Nature and communes with her, that can help in widening the consciousness. (The Mother, 9 November 1969) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/9-november-1969#p4</ref></span>
<div span style="color:#000000;">It is through a love and adoration of the All-beautiful and All-blissful, the All-Good, the True, the spiritual Reality of love, that the approach is made; the aesthetic and emotional parts join together to offer the soul, the life, the whole nature to that which they worship. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-triple-transformation#p15</ref></divspan>
<div span style="color:#000000;">There is nothing which gives you a joy equal to that of gratitude. One hears a bird sing, sees a lovely flower, looks at a little child, observes an act of generosity, reads a beautiful sentence, looks at the setting sun, no matter what, suddenly this comes upon you, this kind of emotion—indeed so deep, so intense—that the world manifests the Divine, that there is something behind the world which is the Divine. (The Mother, 25 January 1956) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/25-january-1956#p61</ref></divspan>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The eye of his will must look beyond to a purity of divine being, a motive of divine will-power guided by divine knowledge of which his perfected nature will be the engine, yantra. That must remain impossible in entirety as long as the dynamic ego with its subservience to the emotional and vital impulses and the preferences of the personal judgment interferes in his action. A perfect equality of the will is the power which dissolves these knots of the lower impulsion to works. This equality will not respond to the lower impulses, but watch for a greater seeing impulsion from the Light above the mind, and will not judge and govern with the intellectual judgment, but wait for enlightenment and direction from a superior plane of vision.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-perfection-of-equality#p9</ref></span>
<div span style="color:#000000;">We make a distinction between truth and beauty; but there can be an aesthetic response to truth also, a joy in its beauty, a love created by its charm, a rapture in the finding, a passion in the embrace, an aesthetic joy in its expression, a satisfaction of love in the giving of it to others. Truth is not merely a dry statement of facts or ideas to or by the intellect; it can be a splendid discovery, a rapturous revelation, a thing of beauty that is a joy for ever. The poet also can be a seeker and lover of truth as well as a seeker and lover of beauty. It can give to beauty its most splendid passion of luminous form and the consciousness that receives it a supreme height and depth of ecstasy. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/27/the-overmind-aesthesis#p63</ref></divspan>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Beauty does not get its full power except when it is surrendered to the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/beauty#p10</ref></span>