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Calm— ''sthiratā''[still, unmoved condition which no disturbance can affect].<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p4</ref><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p8</ref>

Calm is a positive tranquillity which can exist in spite of superficial disturbances. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p12p11</ref>

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p17p16</ref>

Calm Calmness is a stillmore positive condition, unmoved condition not merely an absence of restlessness, over-activity or trouble. When there is a clear sense of great or strong tranquillity which no disturbance nothing troubles or can affect—it trouble, then we say that calm is a less negative condition than quietestablished.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p8p15</ref>

When I tell someoneCalm is self-possessed strength, "Be calm", I mean: Try not to have restlessquiet and conscious energy, excitedmastery of the impulses, agitated thoughts; try to quieten your mind and to stop turning around in all your imaginations and observations and mental constructionscontrol over the unconscious reflexes.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0814/17-october-1956calm#p14p18</ref>

So, if When I tell someone , "Be calm", I may be telling him all kinds of things, it depends upon each person. But obviouslymean: Try not to have restless, most often it isexcited, "Make agitated thoughts; try to quieten your mind quiet, don't be restless and to stop turning around in all the time in your head, don't stir up lots of ideas, calm yourselfimaginations and observations and mental constructions." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/17-october-1956#p22p14</ref>

Calmness is a more positive conditionSo, if I tell someone "Be calm", not merely an absence I may be telling him all kinds of restlessnessthings, over-activity or troubleit depends upon each person. When there But obviously, most often it is a clear sense , "Make your mind quiet, don't be restless all the time in your head, don't stir up lots of great or strong tranquillity which nothing troubles or can troubleideas, then we say that calm is establishedyourself."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2908/quiet17-andoctober-calm1956#p16p22</ref>

Do not confuse calm with inertia. calm is self-possessed strength, quiet and conscious energy, mastery of the impulses, control over the unconscious reflexes. In work calm is the source of efficiency and an indispensable condition for perfection. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/calm#p18</ref><center>~</center>when I tell someone, "Be calm", I don't mean to say "Go and sleep, be inert and passive, and don't do anything", far from it!... True quietude is a very great force, a very great strength. In fact one can say, looking at the problem from the other side, that all those who are really strong, powerful, are always very calm. It is only the weak who are agitated; as soon as one becomes truly strong, one is peaceful, calm, quiet, and one has the power of endurance to face the adverse waves which come rushing from outside in the hope of disturbing one. This true quietude is always a sign of force. calmness belongs to the strong. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/17-october-1956#p18</ref><center>~</center>When this fever of action, of movement, this agitation of creative thought is not there, one feels one is falling into inertia. Most people fear silence, calm, quietude. They no longer feel alive when they are not agitated.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/30-january-1957#p11</ref><center>~</center>In reality, calm is not a negative thing; it is the very nature of the Sat-Purusha and the positive foundation of the divine consciousness. Whatever else is aspired for and gained, this must be kept. Even Knowledge, Power, Ananda, if they come and do not find this foundation, are unable to remain and have to withdraw until the divine purity and peace of the Sat-Purusha are permanently there.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p67</ref>

The first [''calmness with disturbances on the surface''] is the ordinary fundamental calm of the individual Adhar—the second [''perfect stillness in the body and in the surrounding atmosphere''] is the fundamental limitless calm of the cosmic consciousness, a calm which abides whether separated from all movements or supporting them. This [''limitless stillness''] is the calm of the Atman, the Self above, silent, immutable and infinite. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p72p67,p68</ref>

Peace is more positive than calm—there can be a negative calm which is merely an absence of disturbance or trouble, but peace is always something positive bringing not merely a release as calm does but a certain happiness or Ananda of itself. There is also a positive calm, something that stands firm against all things that seek trouble, not thin and neutral like the negative calm, but strong and massive. Very often the two words are used in the same sense, but one can distinguish them in their true sense as above. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace#p2p1</ref>

==In Different Parts of BeingCalm in the Mind==

===Physical=== The calm established in the whole being must remain the same whatever happens, in health and disease, in pleasure and in pain, even in the strongest physical pain, in good fortune and misfortune, our own or that of those we love, in success and failure, honour and insult, praise and blame, justice done to us or injustice, everything that ordinarily affects the mind.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-action-of-equality#p5</ref> ===Vital=== The true vital is different, calm and strong and a powerful instrument submitted to the Divine. But for that to come forward, it is necessary first to get this fixed poise above in the mind—when the consciousness is there and the mind calm, free and wide, then the true vital can come forward.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-nature-of-the-vital#p63</ref> ===Mental=== The mind is said to be calm when thoughts, feelings, etc. may pass through it, but it is not disturbed. It feels that the thoughts are not its own; it observes them perhaps; but it is not perturbed by anything. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p63p58</ref>

You should not confuse a calm mind with a silent mind. You can calm your mind and stop its ordinary activity, but it may still be open to ideas coming from outside and that too disturbs the calm. And for the mind to be completely silent, you must not only stop its own activity but shut out all that comes from other minds. This is not easy. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-mind#p78p77</ref>

The difference between a vacant mind and a calm mind is this, that when the mind is vacant, there is no thought, no conception, no mental action of any kind, except an essential perception of things without the formed idea; but in the calm mind, it is the substance of the mental being that is still, so still that nothing disturbs it. If thoughts or activities come, they do not rise at all out of the mind, but they come from outside and cross the mind as a flight of birds crosses the sky in a windless air. It passes, disturbs nothing, leaving no trace. Even if a thousand images or the most violent events pass across it, the calm stillness remains as if the very texture of the mind were a substance of eternal and indestructible peace. A mind that has achieved this calmness can begin to act, even incessantly and powerfully, but it will keep its fundamental stillness—originating nothing from itself but receiving from Above and giving it a mental form without adding anything of its own, calmly, dispassionately, though with the joy of the Truth and the happy power and light of its passage. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p60p56</ref>

We always tell people to be ...it is in a calm and detached and look upon these things not as their true selves but as an outer part patient confidence that has to be worked upon quietly until it is what it should belies the certitude of victory.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3116/theletters-to-difficultiesa-ofyoung-humansadhak-naturevii#p30p17</ref>

Man, too, becomes perfect It is only when he has found within himself by remaining perfectly peaceful and calm with an unshakable confidence and faith in the Divine Grace that absolute calm…you will allow circumstances to be as good as they can be. The very best happens always to those who have put their entire trust in the Divine and in the Divine alone. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2114/realitythe-divine-grace-and-omnipresentdifficulties#p5p1</ref>

To fix the You must learn to be calm and strength is quiet even in the main thing now—more important than fresh experiences; these will come fast enough if the calm and strength become durable, are made the habit and stuff midst of difficulties. This is the consciousnessway to overcome all obstacles.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3014/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purificationcalm#p55p9</ref>

It In reality, calm is only by remaining perfectly peaceful not a negative thing; it is the very nature of the Sat-Purusha and the positive foundation of the divine consciousness. Whatever else is aspired for and gained, this must be kept. Even Knowledge, Power, Ananda, if they come and do not find this foundation, are unable to remain and have to withdraw until the divine purity and peace of the Sat-Purusha are permanently there.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and -calm#p62,p63</ref> ==In Different Parts of the Being== What is needed is the establishment of the calm with an unshakable confidence and faith in wide consciousness at the base of the Divine Grace whole Nature so that you when the lower nature appears, it will allow circumstances to not be as good an attack or struggle but as they can be. The very best happens always if a Master of forces were there seeing the defects of the present machinery and doing step by step what is necessary to those who have put their entire trust in the Divine remedy and in the Divine alonechange it.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1431/the-divinedifficulties-graceof-and-difficultiesyoga#p1p32</ref>

There is a place in Even to have the inner being where one can always remain quietude and calm somewhere behind or in a passive way is more important and from there look with poise and judgment helpful than it seems. It provides a sort of permanent ground on the perturbations of the surface consciousness which ultimately a lasting peace, power and act upon it to change itjoy can be built. If you one can learn to live in that calm feel one part of the inner being, you will have found your stable basis. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/steps-towards-overcoming-difficulties#p24</ref><center>~</center>You must will with persistence, but not get impatient. Through calm determination you will achieve it more quickly. By getting restless, one wastes more time than one saves. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/13-december-1934#p2</ref><center>~</center>Yes, you are right; I am always there quiet in your heart, but something in your outer consciousness is too active and makes too much noise for you to be aware spite of this presence. It is only the disturbances in silence and calm that you can become aware of itanother part, then one has made the first firm step towards a permanent change.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1729/25quiet-septemberand-1935#p2</ref><center>~</center>You must learn to be calm and quiet even in the midst of difficulties. This is the way to overcome all obstacles. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/calm#p9p31</ref> ==In Different Parts of Being==

To relieve tension, ten minutes of ''real calm'', inner and outer, are more effective than all the remedies in the world. In silence lies the most effective help.

...above all, this: quiet, calm, naturally sheltered from every kind of possible fear, and without any disgust, without any recoiling, nothing; like that: a perfect indifference with a complete calm. Then nothing bad can happen, absolutely nothing. Even if it is truly an enemy who comes to attack you, he becomes powerless.

''Q.How can I prepare my body to bear Your force, Sweet Mother?'' ''A:'' The power to bear is found in calm and quietness.

It is good health, a solid body, well poised; when one does not have the nerves of a little girl that are shaken by the least thing; when one sleeps well, eats well.... When one is quite calm, well balanced, very quiet, one has a solid basis and can receive a large number of forces.

<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p31</ref><center>~</center>The first thing necessary in such matters [sex-dreams and emissions] is to be perfectly calm and refuse to be upset by these difficulties. If they rise one must take it that they do so in order to be worked out.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p172</ref><center>~</center>If one remains calm and firm within, these surface reactions quickly disappear and their rejection helps the remnants of the old nature to disappear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/interactions-with-others-and-the-practice-of-yoga#p14p28</ref>

<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p126</ref><center>~</center>What is needed is the establishment of the calm and wide consciousness at the base of the whole Nature so that when the lower nature appears, it will not be as an attack or struggle but as if a Master of forces were there seeing the defects of the present machinery and doing step by step what is necessary to remedy and change it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-difficulties-of-yoga#p35p111</ref>

'''Getting Rid of Illness'''

The imperative condition for cure is calm and quietness. Any agitation, any nervousness prolongs the illness.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/peace-and-quiet-faith-and-surrenderandsurrender#p21p22</ref>

What you have to do is to remain calm and confident and not worry or be restless—be perfectly quiet and prepared to rest as long as rest is needed... There is nothing to be anxious about; rest, and the health and strength will come.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p9</ref>

To bear illness with calm, equanimity, endurance, even recognition of it, since it has come, as something that had to be passed through in the course of experience. But to accept and enjoy it means to help it to last and that will not do; for illness is a deformation of the physical nature just as lust, anger, jealousy etc. are deformations of the vital nature and error and prejudice and indulgence of falsehood are deformations of the mental nature. All these things have to be eliminated and rejection is the first condition of their disappearance while acceptance has a contrary effect altogether.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p66</ref>

The nervous (vital-physical) being supports the body—if it is calm and strong and solid, then the body is well supported and can withstand illness and weakness or, if illness comes, it will bear and more easily get rid of it. If the nervous being is weak, then it is the opposite. If the nervous being is not merely weak, but nervous and unstable, over-sensitive, vehement or excitable, then there is much fluctuation, restlessness, exaltation and depression in the being—there may even be a wrongly acute creative imagination which brings in disorders into the body that are nervous and not physical—there is no physical illness of the heart but there are pains and palpitations, nothing physically wrong with stomach and intestines and yet there is inability to digest—nervous dyspepsia; pains are created in different parts of the body and so on—sometimes there is hysteria.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p56p49</ref>

===MentalVital===

This force, received It is only in the calm that one can know and silence, will do its work of illumining . All that is done in agitation and violence is an aberration and will create in the brain, if necessary, the cells required for understandinga folly. Thus, when one re-reads The first sign of the same thing some months later, one finds that divine presence in the thought expressed has become much clearer and closer and even at times quite familiarbeing is peace.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1612/2messages-for-the-novemberannual-1959re-opening-of-1classes#p5p18</ref>

So long as the mind is restless, it is not possible One has only to get at the inner Truth. persist with a calm, peace, quietude—that is confidence and the first necessary conditionvital will stop going on strike.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2916/peaceletters-theto-basisa-ofyoung-thesadhak-sadhanaxi#p27p11</ref>

The best attitude is There are two things that make it impossible for them [''the hostile forces''] to be quiet succeed even temporarily in any attack on the mind or the vital—first, an entire love, devotion and confidence that nothing can shake, secondly, a calmand equality in the vital as well as in the mind which has become the fundamental character of the inner nature. Suggestions then may still come, things go wrong outside, but the being remains invulnerable. Either of these two things is sufficient in itself—and in proportion as they grow, even the existence of the hostile forces becomes less and to let less of a phenomenon of the inner life—though they may still be there in the experience follow its course, observing it without thinking about itouter atmosphere.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1431/experiencesdealing-with-andhostile-visionsattacks#p16p51</ref>

"First of all you must By bringing down strength and calm into the lower vital (region below the navel) [''fear can be quieteliminated'']." The whole thing was very vivid Also by will and I appreciate imposing calm on the power of your thought―but I insist on system when the necessity of being calm and quietfear arises. It is indispensablecan be done in either way or both together.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1431/quietfear#p19p15</ref>

It True quietude is the calm and still mind much more readily and with a much greater purity than the mind in agitation and action that opens to the Infinite, reflects the Spiritvery great force, becomes full of the Self and awaits like a consecrated and purified temple the unveiling of the Lord of all our being and naturevery great strength. It is true also that the freedom of this silence gives a possibility of a larger play of In fact one can say, looking at the intuitive being and admits with less obstruction and turmoil of mental groping and seizing the great intuitions, inspirations, revelations which emerge problem from within or descend from above. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-intuitive-mind#p5</ref><center>~</center>This complete detachmentother side, impossible without an entire self-governmentthat all those who are really strong, equalitypowerful, are always very calm. It is only the weak who are agitated; as soon as one becomes truly strong, "śama"one is peaceful, "samatā", "śānti", is the surest step towards the purification of the buddhi. A calm, equal and detached mind can alone reflect the peace or base the action of the liberated spirit.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-intelligence-and-will#p11</ref><center>~</center>Quiet, quiet and more quiet, calm strength, calm gladness are what are needed in mind and nerves and body as a basis for one has the siddhi—precisely because power of endurance to face the Force, the Light, the Ananda that adverse waves which come down are extremely intense and need a great stillness rushing from outside in the being to bear and support themhope of disturbing one.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-descent-This true quietude is always a sign of-the-higher-powers#p12</ref><center>~</center>You are not at any time out of our mindsforce. We are there with you in your difficulties and troubles—remain calm and assured and you will feel the inner help. Do not yield Calmness belongs to depression for depression only gives the opposition and difficulties a hold upon you; call quietly and persistently for strength and the strength will comestrong. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3108/steps-towards17-overcomingoctober-difficulties1956#p14p18</ref>

===VitalMental===

It So long as the mind is only in restless, it is not possible to get at the calm that one can know and doinner Truth. All that Calm, peace, quietude—that is done in agitation and violence is an aberration and a folly. The the first sign of the divine presence in the being is peacenecessary condition. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1229/messages-forpeace-the-annualbasis-reof-opening-ofthe-classessadhana#p18p24</ref>

If The feeling of calm and comparative absence of disturbing thoughts. This means the departed one growth of quietude of mind which is necessary for a person one loves, one should concentrate one's love on him in peace and calm, for that is what can most help the one who has departedfully effective meditation.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1630/16descent-and-other-kinds-januaryof-1970experience#p4p11</ref>

One has only to persist The power of expression comes by getting into touch with a the inner source from which these things come. A calm confidence and silent mind is a great help for the free flow of the vital power, but it is not indispensable, nor will stop going on strikeit of itself bring it. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1631/lettersthe-topower-aof-youngexpression-sadhakand-xiyoga#p11p2</ref>

These ordeals laid a special emphasis on the mastery of passions Quiet, quiet and desiresmore quiet, on the establishment of an unshakable calm, and above all on the absence of all fear, for in this endeavour an unflinching fearlessness is an essential condition of safety. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-fear-of-death-and-the-four-methods-of-conquering-it#p20</ref><center>~</center>What you have to aspire for and bring down in you is the peace of the Mother's consciousness. Peacestrength, calm, equanimity gladness are what are needed in the emotional being and the rest of the vital especially—it is that which will purify the emotions mind and deliver the vital.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-nature-of-the-vital#p80</ref><center>~</center>A calm nerves and equality in the vital body as well as in a basis for the mind which has become siddhi—precisely because the fundamental character of the inner nature. Suggestions then may still comeForce, things go wrong outside, but the being remains invulnerable. Either of these two things is sufficient in itself—and in proportion as they growLight, even the existence of the hostile forces becomes less Ananda that come down are extremely intense and less of need a phenomenon of the inner life—though they may still be there great stillness in the outer atmosphere.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/dealing-with-hostile-attacks#p51</ref><center>~</center>Only calm in the vital is hardly sufficient [being to have psychic experiences]. There must be something throwing out the ego from the vitalbear and support them.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/ego-and-its-forms#p69</ref><center>~<30/center>Tell the vital that complaining and revolting only hampers you from getting what it wants—it is only when it is calm and confident that things can be done.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/wrong-movementsdescent-of-the-vital#p63</ref><center>~</center>Not to judge anyone but oneself until one can see things from a calm mind and a calm vital is an excellent rule. Also, do not allow your mind to form hasty impressions on the strength of some outward appearance, nor your vital to act upon them. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/steps-towards-overcominghigher-difficulties#p23</ref><center>~</center>By bringing down strength and calm into the lower vital (region below the navel) [fear can be eliminated]. Also by will and imposing calm on the system when the fear arises. It can be done in either way or both together.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/fearpowers#p15p10</ref>

You are too easily invaded by these things [from outside]. You must call for a This complete detachment, impossible without an entire self-government, equality, calm quietness in , "śama", "samatā", "śānti", is the surest step towards the vital and physical and a Force in you and around you which will repel all foreign forces purification of the moment they appearbuddhi. If there is entire quietude A calm, equal and strength in detached mind can alone reflect the peace or base the action of the nerves, these outside forces will not easily be able to touch youliberated spirit.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2924/quietpurification-intelligence-and-calmwill#p27p11</ref>

Even It is the calm and still mind much more readily and with a much greater purity than the mind in agitation and action that opens to have the quietude Infinite, reflects the Spirit, becomes full of the Self and calm somewhere behind or in awaits like a passive way is more important consecrated and purified temple the unveiling of the Lord of all our being and helpful than it seemsnature. It provides is true also that the freedom of this silence gives a sort possibility of permanent ground on which ultimately a lasting peace, power and joy can be built. If one can feel one part larger play of the intuitive being always quiet in spite and admits with less obstruction and turmoil of mental groping and seizing the disturbances in another partgreat intuitions, inspirations, then one has made the first firm step towards a permanent changerevelations which emerge from within or descend from above.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2924/quietthe-andintuitive-calmmind#p33p5</ref>

==For SadhanaImportance in Yoga==

It is the first secret of Yoga, to maintain the inner calm always and from that calm to meet everything. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p62p57</ref>

<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/equality-the-chief-support#p2p17</ref>

Always you must remain calm, untouched and unmoved; the strength of the Yogi lies there. An entire calmness and quietness will disarm even dangerous and ferocious animals when they confront you.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/30-june-1929#p5</ref>

To be calm, undisturbed and quiet is not the first condition for sadhana but for siddhi. It is only a few people (very few, one, two, three, four in a hundred sadhaks) who can get it from the first. Most have to go through a long preparation before they can get anywhere near it. Even afterwards when they begin to feel the peace and calm, it takes time to establish it—they swing between peace and disturbance for a fairly long time until all parts of nature have accepted the truth and the peace. So there is no reason for you to suppose you cannot progress or arrive. You are finding a great difficulty with one part of your nature which has been accustomed to open itself to these feelings, separation from the Mother and attachment to relatives, and is not willing to give them up—that is all. But everybody finds such obstinate difficulties in that part of the nature, even the most successful sadhaks here. One has to persevere until the light conquers there.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace-the-basis-of-the-sadhana#p28p25</ref>

A sattwic gladness and calm and confidence is the proper temperament for this Yoga; gloom, depression and weeping should not be indulged in, as they stand in the way of the opening, unless the tears are the psychic weeping of release or adoration or a moved love and bhakti. The progress made in controlling the sex and other rajasic movements of the lower vital is a good preparation, but not enough; by itself it is only the negative side, though indispensable. Aspire for a positive sattwic opening for strength, for light, for peace and do not worry or repine if the progress is slow at first, nor grudge the time and labour of preparation necessary before there can be a rapid advance in the Yoga.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sorrow-and-suffering#p14p12</ref>

<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace-the-basis-of-the-sadhana#p20</ref><center>~</center>A great wave (or sea) of calm and the constant consciousness of a vast and luminous Reality—this is precisely the character of the fundamental realisation of the Supreme Truth in its first touch on the mind and the soul. One could not ask for a better beginning or foundation—it is like a rock on which the rest can be built. It means certainly not only a Presence, but the Presence—and it would be a great mistake to weaken the experience by any non-acceptance or doubt of its character.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/experiences-of-the-self-the-one-and-the-infinite#p9</ref><center>~</center>At a higher stage of development when the inner calm is established, one simply observes the defects of the nature as defects of a machinery that one has to put right and calls down the Light and Force for its rectification. In the beginning however the movement of repentance even helps provided it does not bring discouragement or depression.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/depression-and-despondency#p33</ref><center>~</center>...calm and peace in the whole being are the necessary foundation of all siddhi.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/wrong-movements-of-the-vital#p52p18</ref>

<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-psychic-and-spiritual-realisations#p14</ref> ==For Ananda== To be full of peace, the heart quiet, not troubled by grief, not excited by joy is a very good condition. As for Ananda, it can come not only with its fullest intensity but with a more enduring persistence when the mind is at peace and the heart delivered from ordinary joy and sorrow. If the mind and heart are restless, changeful, unquiet, Ananda of a kind may come, but it is mixed with vital excitement and cannot abide. One must get peace and calm fixed in the consciousness first, then there is a solid basis on which the Ananda can spread itself and in its turn become an enduring part of the consciousness and the nature.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace#p55</ref><center>~</center>But calm, peace, shanti are the necessary basis for any establishment of other things. Otherwise there is no solid foundation in the consciousness; if there is only unrest and movement, bhakti, Ananda and everything else can only come and go in starts and fits and find no ground to live on. It must, however, be not a mere mental quiet, but the deep spiritual peace of the shantimaya Shiva. It was this that touched you (descending through the head) in this experience. For the rest it is a resumption of the piercing of the veil, the beginning of the power of inner experience as opposed to the lesser experiences of the surface, the opening of the inner being, which is necessary for bringing the Yogic consciousness. A certain amount of vital purification has taken place which made the resumption of this kind of experience possible.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-inward-movement#p95p10</ref>

This It is quite natural that at first there should be the condition of calm, and peace only when you sit for concentration. What is important is that there should be this condition whenever you sit and surrender are the right atmosphere pressure for all it always there. But at other times the result is at first only a certain mental quiet and freedom from thoughts. Afterwards when the condition of peace is quite settled in the inner being—for it is the rest inner into which you enter whenever you concentrate—then it begins to comeout and control the outer, knowledgeso that the calm and peace remain even when working, strengthmixing with others, Anandatalking or other occupations. Let it become completeFor then whatever the outer consciousness is doing, one feels the inner being calm within—indeed one feels the inner being as one’s real self while the outer is something superficial through which the inner acts on life.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peaceconcentration-the-basis-of-theand-sadhanameditation#p1p70</ref>

There are two conditions, one A great wave (or sea) of Ananda, another calm and the constant consciousness of great calm a vast and equality luminous Reality—this is precisely the character of the fundamental realisation of the Supreme Truth in its first touch on the mind and the soul. One could not ask for a better beginning or foundation—it is like a rock on which there is no joy or griefthe rest can be built. If one attains It means certainly not only a Presence, but ''the latter, afterwards '' Presence—and it would be a greater more permanent Ananda becomes possiblegreat mistake to weaken the experience by any non-acceptance or doubt of its character.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2930/peaceexperiences-of-the-self-the-one-and-the-infinite#p66p8</ref>

===For Descent of Force===

The Peace, calm, Quiet as a Basis for Purity and Calm of the Self must be fixed—otherwise the active Descentmay find the forces it awakes seized on by lower Powers and a confusion created. That has happened with many.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-descent-of-the-higher-powers#p9p11</ref>

Calm To be full of peace, the Self must be fixed—otherwise heart quiet, not troubled by grief, not excited by joy is a very good condition. As for Ananda, it can come not only with its fullest intensity but with a more enduring persistence when the mind is at peace and the heart delivered from ordinary joy and sorrow. If the active Descent mind and heart are restless, changeful, unquiet, Ananda of a kind may find come, but it is mixed with vital excitement and cannot abide. One must get peace and calm fixed in the forces it awakes seized consciousness first, then there is a solid basis on by lower Powers which the Ananda can spread itself and in its turn become an enduring part of the consciousness and a confusion created. That has happened with manythe nature.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3029/the-descent-of-the-higher-powerspeace#p11p48</ref>

You must remain This calm , peace and strong and go straight, using surrender are the power of Truth and right atmosphere for all the Divine Force supporting you rest to overcome the difficulties and set straight what has been made crooked by the falsehoodcome, knowledge, strength, Ananda. Let it become complete.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3129/peace-the-difficultiesbasis-of-yogathe-sadhana#p32p10</ref>

Only the safest is to bring down first an absolute There are two conditions, one of Ananda, another of great calm and peace for that makes the descent of the rest more secure; otherwise it may be difficult for the external nature to contain or bear so much Force, Light, Knowledge equality in which there is no joy or Anandagrief. All these things together make what we call If one attains the higherlatter, spiritual or divine consciousnessafterwards a greater more permanent Ananda becomes possible.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3029/the-psychic-and-spiritual-realisationspeace#p27p59</ref>

<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-devotion-worship#p57p51</ref>

<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/steps-towards-overcoming-difficulties#p36p33</ref>

One may get influences from above, but so long as the mind is not full of the higher calm, peace, silence, one cannot be in direct contact. These influences get diminished, mentalised, vitalised and are not the powers of the higher planes in their native character. Nor is this sufficient to get control of the hidden forces of all the planes of consciousness, which is perhaps what he means by occultism.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/ascent-to-the-higher-planes#p3p2</ref>

==For Importance in Work==

What you write about the work is correct; … to work in this calm ever-widening consciousness is at once a ''sādhanā '' and a ''siddhi''.

<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/practical-concerns-in-work#p35p32</ref><center>~</center>=How Can One Achieve Calm?=The one thing important is to increase calm and peace and the descent of the Divine Force, to grow in equality and inward light and consciousness. Outward things have to be done with a great quiet, doing whatever is necessary but not exciting or upsetting yourself about anything. It is only so that you can advance steadily and quickly. When you feel the Mother's Force about you, the peace closely round you that is the one thing of importance—these small outward things can be settled in a hundred different ways, it doesn't really matter.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-inward-movement#p64</ref>

''Q:Make calm come to us, you mean? =Howcan One Achieve Calm?'' =

''A:'' Simply as when you want to call someone, you call him, don't you? (Laughter) It There is a place in the same thing. You must inner being where one can always remain as calm as you can and wish for calm, aspire for calm, call calm, like that, remaining as calm as from there look with poise and judgment on the perturbations of the surface consciousness and act upon it to change it. If you can at learn to live in that moment. Ask to be yet calmer. Want calm. But all this calmlyof the inner being, because if you want it agitatedly, calm will not comehave found your stable basis. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0631/20steps-towards-octoberovercoming-1954difficulties#p32p21</ref>

It is as though you were learning how to call a friend: by dint Aspire for the rest of being called he comes. Wellthe divine consciousness, make peace and but with a calm your friends and call them: "Come, peace, peace, peace, peace, come!"<ref>http://incarnateworddeep aspiration.in/cwm/06/8-september-1954#p46</ref><center>~</center>But now you are more sober and undoubtedly you are more It can be ardent as well as calm and quiet, until the day there will be no attachments any longer but luminous and sweet sympathies without any demand not impatient, restless or egoismfull of rajasic eagerness. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/attachment-toquiet-others#p7</ref><center>~</center>As soon as there is something which affects the solar plexus, you must say, "calm... calm... calm", become more and more calm until the tension is destroyed.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p18</ref><center>~</center>Try to keep as quiet and calm as possible and... let it pass away!<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/31-october-1963#p4p63</ref>

Remain quietThere can be no firm foundation in sadhana without equality, ''samatā''. Whatever the unpleasantness of circumstances, open yourself however disagreeable the conduct of others, you must learn to receive them with a perfect calm and call without any disturbing reaction. These things are the divine Shakti test of equality. It is easy to confirm be calm and equal when things go well and people and circumstances are pleasant; it is when they are the opposite that the completeness of the calm, peace, equality can be tested, reinforced, made perfect.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/equality-the -chief-support#p1</ref><center>~</center>The calm established in the whole being must remain the same whatever happens, in health and peacedisease, in pleasure and in pain, to widen even in the consciousness strongest physical pain, in good fortune and misfortune, our own or that of those we love, in success and to bring into it as much light failure, honour and power as it can at present receive insult, praise and assimilateblame, justice done to us or injustice, everything that ordinarily affects the mind.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2924/peace-the-basisaction-of-equality#p5</ref><center>~</center>At a higher stage of development when the inner calm is established, one simply observes the defects of the nature as defects of a machinery that one has to put right and calls down theLight and Force for its rectification. In the beginning however the movement of repentance even helps provided it does not bring discouragement or depression.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/depression-and-sadhanadespondency#p17p29</ref>

There can You should be no firm foundation in sadhana without equality, samatā. Whatever the unpleasantness of circumstances, however disagreeable the conduct of others, you must learn to receive them with like a perfect calm and without any disturbing reaction. These things are mirror that reflects the test of equality. It is easy to be calm truth and equal when things go well and people and circumstances are pleasant; it is when they are the opposite that the completeness of the calm, peace, equality can be tested, reinforced, made perfect. <ref>http://incarnateworddoes not judge.in/cwsa/29/equality-the-chief-support#p2</ref>

If you are able to keep such an attitude, if you have this repose and quiet trust in your being and wait for what may be revealed to you, then something like this happens: you are, as it were, in a wood, dark and noiseless; you see in front of you merely a sheet of water, dark and still, hardly visible—a bit of a pond imbedded in the obscurity; and slowly upon it a moonbeam is cast and in the cool dim light emerges the calm liquid surface. That is how your secret truth of being will appear and present itself to you at your first contact with it: there you will see gradually reflected the true qualities of your being, the traits of your divine personality, what you really are and what you are meant to be.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/12-november-1952#p7</ref> ==MethodsHelpful Practices==

 For each one the method is different, but first one must feel the need, for whatever reason it may be—whether because one is tired or because one is overstrained or because one truly wants to rise beyond the state one lives in—one must first understand, feel the need of this quietude, this peace in the mind. And then, afterwards, one may try out successively all the methods, known ones and new, to attain the result.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/17-october-1956#p15,p16</ref>

You sit quietly, to begin with; and then, instead of thinking of fifty things, you begin saying to yourself, "Peace, peace, peace, peace, peace, calm, peace!" You imagine peace and ''Q:How can we call calm. You aspire, ask that it may come..?'' ''A: "Peace, peace, calm." And then, when something comes and touches you and acts, say quietly, like this, "Peace, peace, peace''." Do not look at the thoughts, do not listen to the thoughts, you understand. You must not pay attention to everything that comes. You know, Simply as when someone bothers you a great deal and you want to get rid of call someone, you call him, you don't listen to him, do you? Good! You turn your head away (‘‘gesture’’''Laughter'') and think of something else. Well, you must do that: when thoughts come, you must not look at them, must not listen to them, must not pay any attention at all, you must behave as though they did not exist, you see! And then, repeat all the time like a kind of—how shall I put it?—as an idiot does, who repeats It is the same thing always. Well, you You must do the same thing; remain as calm as you must repeatcan and wish for calm, "Peaceaspire for calm, peacecall calm, peace." So you try this for a few minutes and then do what you have to do; and then, another timelike that, remaining as calm as you begin again; sit down again and then try. Do this on getting up in the morning, do this in the evening when going to bed. You can do this..at that moment. look, if you want Ask to digest your food properly, you can do this for a few minutes before eatingbe yet calmer. You can't imagine how much this helps your digestion! Before beginning to eat you sit quietly for a while and say, "Peace, peace, peace!" and everything becomes Want calm. It seems as though But all the noises were going farthis calmly, far, far away ("Mother stretches out her arms on both sides") and then because if you must continue; and there comes a time when you no longer need to sit down, and no matter what you are doing, no matter what you are saying, want it is always "Peaceagitatedly, peace, peace." Everything remain here, like this, it does calm will not enter (gesture in front of the forehead), it remain like this. And then one is always in a perfect peace... after some yearscome. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/820-septemberoctober-1954#p45p32</ref>

You sit quietly, to begin with; and then, instead of thinking of fifty things, you begin saying to yourself, "Peace, peace, peace, peace, peace, calm, peace!" You imagine peace and calm. You aspire, ask that it may come: "Peace, peace, calm." And then, when something comes and touches you and acts, say quietly, like this, "Peace, peace, peace." Do not look at the thoughts, do not listen to the thoughts, you understand. You must lie flat on not pay attention to everything that comes. You know, when someone bothers you a great deal and you want to get rid of him, you don't listen to him, do you? Good! You turn your back head away (''gesture'') and relax think of something else. Well, you must do that: when thoughts come, you must not look at them, must not listen to them, must not pay any attention at all the muscles and , you must behave as though they did not exist, you see! And then, repeat all the nerves—it is time like a kind of—how shall I put it?—as an easy idiot does, who repeats the same thing always. Well, you must do the same thing; you must repeat, "Peace, peace, peace." So you try this for a few minutes and then do what you have to learn—to be like what I call a rag do; and then, another time, you begin again; sit down again and then try. Do this on a getting up in the morning, do this in the evening when going to bed: nothing else remains. And You can do this... look, if you want to digest your food properly, you can do that with this for a few minutes before eating. You can't imagine how much this helps your digestion! Before beginning to eat you sit quietly for a while and say, "Peace, peace, peace!" and everything becomes calm. It seems as though all the mind alsonoises were going far, far, far away ("Mother stretches out her arms on both sides") and then you get rid of all those stupid dreams that make must continue; and there comes a time when you more tired when no longer need to sit down, and no matter what you get up than when are doing, no matter what you went to bedare saying, it is always "Peace, peace, peace. It is the cellular activity " Everything remains here, like this, it does not enter (''gesture in front of the brain that continues without controlforehead''), and that tires it remains like this. And then one muchis always in a perfect peace... after some years. So But at the beginning, a total relaxationvery small beginning, two or three minutes, it is very simple. For something complicated you must make an effort, a sort of complete calmand when one makes an effort, one is not quiet. It is difficult to make an effort while remaining quiet. Very simple, without tensionvery simple, you must be very simple in which everything is stoppedthese things. But this It is only the beginningas though you were learning how to call a friend: by dint of being called he comes. Well, make peace and calm your friends and call them: "Come, peace, peace, peace, peace, come!" <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1506/48-juneseptember-19601954#p3p45,p46</ref>

There are many methodsRemain quiet, but I will give you one. First, your body must be comfortable, on a bed, in an easy-chair—anywhere so long as it is comfortable. Then you learn how open yourself and call the divine Shakti to relax your nerves one after confirm the other, until you achieve complete relaxation. You should relax all your nerves—you can relax them all togethercalm and peace, but perhaps it is easier to relax them one after widen the other, consciousness and this becomes very interesting. And when that is done, you must make your brain quiet to bring into it as much light and silent power as it can at present receive and at assimilate.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace-the same time keep your body like a rag on -basis-of-the bed-sadhana#p15</ref><center>~</center>You are too easily invaded by these things [''from outside'']. You must make call for a calm quietness in the brain so still vital and absolutely quiet that it is not aware of itself. And then, don't try to sleep, but pass very gently from this state into sleep without being aware of it. When physical and a Force in you wake up the next morning and around you which will be full of energyrepel all foreign forces the moment they appear. But if you go to bed very tired If there is entire quietude and without even trying to relaxstrength in the nerves, to calm down, you these outside forces will fall into a heavy, dull and unconscious sleep and the vital will lose all its energy. Perhaps this won't have any immediate effect, but it is better not easily be able to try it than to plunge into sleep when touch you are very tired.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1529/1quiet-februaryand-1951calm#p21p25</ref>

Before you go to sleep, concentrate a few seconds The thing is that it is unavoidable in the aspiration course of the sadhana that some parts of the being should be less open, less advanced, as yet less aware of the sleep may restore your fatigued nervesPeace and Force, less intimate to them than others. These parts have to be worked upon, bring calm and quietness changed, but this can be done smoothly only if you are detached from them, able to regard them as not your brain so that on waking very self, even though a part of the nature you have to change. Then when they appear with their defects, you maywill not be upset, with renewed vigournot carried away by their movements, begin again your journey lost to the sense of the Peace and Force; you will be able to work on them (or rather let the path of Force work) as one would on a machine that has to be repaired or a work that has defects and has to be done better this time. If you identify yourself with these parts, then it is very troublesome. The work will still be done, the great discoverychange made, but with delay, with bad upsettings, in a painful and not in a smooth way. That is why we always tell people to be calm and detached and look upon these things not as their true selves but as an outer part that has to be worked upon quietly until it is what it should be.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1231/psychicthe-educationdifficulties-andof-spiritualhuman-educationnature#p13p28</ref> ==In Different Parts of the Being==

==In Different Parts If the desires were thrown out and the ego less active and the physical mind at rest knowledge would come from above; in place of Being==the physical mind's stupidities, the vital mind could be calm and quiet and the Mother's Force take up the action and the higher consciousness begin to come down. That is the proper sequel of emptiness.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/emptiness-voidness-blankness-and-silence#p9</ref>

One must The first thing to be calm done in order to recover is to stop yielding to the attack of the nerves—the more you yield and identify yourself with these ideas and equalfeelings, not getting upset or dissatisfied when the food is not tasty or not more they increase. You have to draw back and find back something in abundance—eating the fixed amount you that is necessarynot affected by pains and depressions, not less or more. There should be neither eagerness nor repugnancethen from there you can get rid of the pains and depressions.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/foodillness-and-health#p12p112</ref>

Many discomforts, even physical, like all these contractions of the solar plexus, which are so unpleasant and give you at times nausea, the sensation of being suffocated, of not being able to breathe again, can disappear thus. It is the nervous centre which is affected, it gets affected very easily. As soon as there is something which affects the solar plexus, you must say, “Calm… calm… calm”, become more and more calm until the tension is destroyed. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p18</ref> '''To Get Better Sleep?''' You must lie flat on your back and relax all the muscles and all the nerves—it is an easy thing to learn—to be like what I call a rag on a pity! Perhaps bed: nothing else remains. And if you can do that with the mind also, you get rid of all those stupid dreams that make you are a bit more tired. I hope when you are sleeping well. I would like get up than when you to go went to bed earlier. Is all this work after meditation discussionsIt is the cellular activity of the brain that continues without control, accounts, etcand that tires one much. really indispensable? To keep one's self-controlSo, one needs to have time enough to resta total relaxation, enter into oneself and find a sort of complete calm and quiet, without tension, in which everything is stopped. But this is only the beginning.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1615/194-octoberjune-19381960#p3</ref>

Well, once you have the control you can stop that completely... stop it before going the most important thing of all is to sleep... make yourself like a vast seathe mind clear, that is, it is completely to quieten the emotions and calm the effervescence of desires and still and vastthe preoccupations which accompany them... well, you can make your mind like thatIf before retiring to bed one has talked a lot or had a lively discussion, vastif one has read an exciting or intensely interesting book, calmone should rest a little without sleeping in order to quieten the mental activity, like so that the brain does not engage in disorderly movements while the other parts of the body alone are asleep. Those who practise meditation will do well to concentrate for a few minutes on a flatlofty and restful idea, motionless surface; then your in an aspiration towards a higher and vaster consciousness. Their sleep will benefit greatly from this and they will largely be spared the risk of falling into unconsciousness while they sleep is excellent.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0712/13the-four-austerities-and-the-aprilfour-1955liberations#p23p15</ref>

A consequent Before you go to sleep, concentrate a few seconds in the aspiration that the sleep may restore your fatigued nerves, bring calm content and disappearance quietness to your brain so that on waking you may, with renewed vigour, begin again your journey on the path of egoistic attachment the great discovery.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/psychic-education-and-spiritual-education#p13</ref><center>~</center>There are many methods, but I will give you one. First, your body must be comfortable, on a bed, in an easy-chair—anywhere so long as it is comfortable. Then you learn how to relax your nerves one after the work other, until you achieve complete relaxation. You should relax all your nerves—you can relax them all together, but perhaps it is easier to relax them one after the other, and its personal resultsthis becomes very interesting. And when that is done, but you must make your brain quiet and silent and at the same time keep your body like a great joy in rag on the bed. You must make the work brain so still and in absolutely quiet that it is not aware of itself. And then, don't try to sleep, but pass very gently from this state into sleep without being aware of it. When you wake up the use next morning you will be full of energy. But if you go to bed very tired and without even trying to relax, to calm down, you will fall into a heavy, dull and unconscious sleep and the capacities for the divine purposevital will lose all its energy. Perhaps this won't have any immediate effect, but it is better to try it than to plunge into sleep when you are very tired.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2915/work1-andfebruary-yoga1951#p18p21</ref>

...make yourself like a vast sea, that is, it is necessary first to establish the entire openness of the physical being completely calm and still and stabilise in it the descent of vast... well, you can make your mind like that, vast, calm, like a flat, motionless surface; then your sleep is excellent.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3107/the-transformation-of13-theapril-physical1955#p12p23</ref>

===MentalVital===

It As soon as there is quite natural that at first there should be the condition least sign of calm and peace only when you sit for concentration. What is important is that there should be this condition. If the desires were thrown out and the ego less active and the physical mind at rest knowledge would come from above; in place discontentment, of the physical mind's stupiditiesannoyance, the vital mind could must be spoken to in this way, "My friend, you are going to keep calm and quiet and the Mother's Force take up the action and the higher consciousness begin , you are going to do what you are asked to do, otherwise you will have to come downdeal with me. That is " And to the proper sequel of emptiness. But nothing of this has happened because other, the enthusiast who says, "emptinessEverything must be done now, immediately", your reply is, " could calm yourself a little, your energy is excellent, but it must not complete itselfbe spent in five minutes. We shall need it for a long time, keep it carefully and, as it is wanted, I shall call upon your goodwill. You will show that is to you are full of goodwill, you will obey, you won't grumble, you will not protest, you will not revolt, you will say'yes, the true silence and peaceyes', you will make a little sacrifice when asked, you will say 'yes' whole-heartedly."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3004/emptiness-voidness26-blankness-andmarch-silence1951#p10p13</ref>

The feeling of Tell the vital that complaining and revolting only hampers you from getting what it wants—it is only when it is calm and comparative absence of disturbing thoughts. This means the growth of quietude of mind which is necessary for a fully effective meditationconfident that things can be done.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3031/descent-andwrong-othermovements-kindsof-ofthe-experiencevital#p14p55</ref>

...try to To become calm and silent; not only to avoid chattering outwardly, but entirely indifferent to try to silence your mind and gather your consciousness which is dispersed in all the thoughts you have good and your preoccupations; to gather it, bring it back within yourself as completely as possible and concentrate it here, in the region bad opinion of the heartothers, especially those who are or were near the solar plexus, so that all and stand on the active energies in Truth alone is very difficult; some reaction of the head old nature can easily come across; but if one remains calm and all that keeps the brain runningfirm within, may be brought back these surface reactions quickly disappear and concentrated here. This can be done in a few seconds, it can take a few minutes: that depends on each one. Well, this is a preparatory attitude. And then, once this is done—or done as well as you can do it—you may take two attitudes, that is, an active attitude or a passive attitudetheir rejection helps the remnants of the old nature to disappear. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0931/7interactions-februarywith-others-and-the-practice-of-1957yoga#p6p12</ref>

And if, in The first thing is to call down the mental silence, a part of calm into the being can take mind and the attitude of vital; with the witness who observes without reacting calm established or participating, then one can notice in course of preparation to invite more and more the effect that the music produces on the feelings Mother's workings and grow conscious of them within you and emotions; give your assent to them and if it produces a state of deep calm refuse all else. All the rest then comes in its time and semi-trance, that is very goodby the proper process.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1629/15-november-1959opening#p4p19</ref>

...whenever What you sit and the pressure have to aspire for it always there. But at other times the result is at first only a certain mental quiet and freedom from thoughts. Afterwards when the condition of peace is quite settled bring down in the inner being—for it you is the inner into which you enter whenever you concentrate—then it begins to come out and control peace of the outerMother's consciousness. Peace, so that the calm and peace remain even when working, mixing with others, talking or other occupations. For then whatever equanimity in the outer consciousness is doing, one feels the inner emotional being calm within—indeed one feels and the inner being as one's real self while rest of the outer vital especially—it is something superficial through that which will purify the inner acts on lifeemotions and deliver the vital.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2931/concentrationthe-nature-of-andthe-meditationvital#p76p69</ref>

If you are able Surrender everything, reject all other desires or interests, call on the divine Shakti to keep such an attitude, if you have this repose open the vital nature and quiet trust in your being and wait for what may be revealed to youbring down calm, then something like this happens: you arepeace, as it werelight, in a woodAnanda into all the centres. Aspire, dark and noiseless; you see in front of you merely a sheet of water, dark await with faith and still, hardly visible—a bit of a pond imbedded in patience the obscurity; and slowly upon it result. All depends on a moonbeam is cast complete sincerity and in the cool dim light emerges the calm liquid surface. That is how your secret truth of being will appear an integral consecration and present itself to you at your first contact with it: there you will see gradually reflected the true qualities of your being, the traits of your divine personality, what you really are and what you are meant to beaspiration.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1529/12-november-1952surrender#p7p43</ref>

The attitude of the witness consciousness within—I do not think it necessarily involves an external seclusiontrue vital is different, though one may do that also—is calm and strong and a very necessary stage in powerful instrument submitted to the progressDivine. It helps the liberation from the lower prakriti—not getting involved in the ordinary nature movements; But for that to come forward, it helps the establishment of a perfect calm and peace within, for there is then one part of the being which remains detached and sees without being disturbed the perturbations of the surface; it helps also necessary first to get this fixed poise above in the ascent into mind—when the higher consciousness is there and the descent of the higher consciousness, for it is through this mind calm, detached free and liberated inner being that wide, then the ascent and descent true vital can easily be done. Also, to have the same witness look on the movements of Prakriti in others, seeing, understanding but not perturbed by them in any way is a very great help towards both the liberation and the universalisation of the being. I could not therefore possibly object to this movement in a sadhakcome forward. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3031/innerthe-detachmentnature-andof-the-witness-attitudevital#p35p53</ref>

If you separate yourself from these movements and establish ...the neutral state, can deepen into positive calm and peace inside, by a greater influx from above which keeps the passions may still rise on vital not only quiescent but at least passively acquiescent. With the surface, but they will be felt to be external movements active interest and you can deal with them or call down the divine aid to get rid consent of them. So long as the mind does not fall quiet, it is not possible to deal finally with vital the vital being from which these forces risepeace becomes a glad or joyful peace or a strong peace supporting and entering into action or active experience.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2931/qualitieswrong-neededmovements-forof-sadhanathe-vital#p13p29</ref>

To The unsatisfying surface play of our feeble egoistic emotions must be ousted and there must be calm, steady, fixed in the spirit, dhīra, sthira, this quietude of the mindrevealed instead a secret deep and vast psychic heart within that waits behind them for its hour; all our feelings, impelled by this separation of the inner Purusha from heart in which dwells the outer Prakriti is very helpfulDivine, almost indispensable. So long as the being is subject to the whirl will be transmuted into calm and intense movements of thoughts or the turmoil a twin passion of the vital movements one cannot be thus calm divine Love and fixed in the spirit. To detach oneself, to stand back from them, to feel them separate from oneself is indispensablemanifold Ananda. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2923/silenceself-surrender-in-works-the-way-of-the-gita#p19p4</ref>

For the buzz To get rid of the physical mind, reject it quietly, without getting disturbed, till it feels discouraged and retires shaking its head and saying, "This fellow is too calm and strong for me." There are [vital disturbances] one must have always two things that can rise up and assail a sense of complete reliance on the silenceMother,—vital suggestions, the physical mind's mechanical recurrences. of surrender; that brings a calm rejection for both is the cure. There is a Purusha within who can dictate which refuses to the nature be moved by any outward happening or by what it shall admit people do or excludesay, but its will a happiness which is a strong, quiet will; if one gets perturbed or agitated over the difficulties, then the will of the Purusha cannot act effectively as it would otherwisenot disturbed by any occurrence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2931/concentrationwrong-andmovements-of-the-meditationvital#p40p80</ref>

...the most important thing The human vital is almost always of all is to make the mind clear, to quieten the emotions and calm the effervescence that nature [''full of desires and the preoccupations which accompany them. If before retiring to bed one has talked a lot or had a lively discussionfancies''], if but that is no reason why one has read should accept it as an exciting or intensely interesting book, one should rest unchangeable fact and allow a little without sleeping in order restless vital to quieten the mental activity, so that the brain does not engage in disorderly movements while the other parts of the body alone are asleepdrive one as it likes. Those who practise meditation will do well to concentrate for a few minutes on a lofty and restful idea, in an aspiration towards a higher and vaster consciousness. Their sleep will benefit greatly from this and they will largely be spared the risk of falling into unconsciousness while they sleep. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/In Yoga one uses the-four-austerities-inner will and-compels the-four-liberations#p16</ref><center>~</center>There is no longer any need vital to accumulate acquired knowledge, received ideas which have submit itself to be memorised; tapasya so that it is no longer necessary to clutter may become calm, strong, obedient—or else one's brain with thousands and thousands of things in order to have at one's command, when calls down the time comes, calm from above obliging the knowledge that vital to renounce desire and become quiet and receptive. The vital is needed to perform an action, to impart a teaching, to solve good instrument but a problembad master. The mind is silentIf you allow it to follow its likes and dislikes, the brain is stillits fancies, everything is clearits desires, quietits bad habits, calm; it becomes your master and peace and at happiness are no longer possible. It becomes not your instrument or the instrument of the right momentDivine Shakti, by divine Grace a drop but of any force of light falls into the consciousness and what needs to be known is known. Why should one care to remember—why try to retain that knowledge? On the day Ignorance or at the moment even any hostile force that it is needed one will have able to seize and use it again. At each second one is a blank page on which what must be known will be inscribed—in the peace, the repose, the silence of a perfect receptivity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1031/aphorismthe-nature-of-the-4vital#p3p23</ref>

===VitalMental===

Surrender everything...try to become calm and silent; not only to avoid chattering outwardly, reject but to try to silence your mind and gather your consciousness which is dispersed in all other desires or interests, call on the divine Shakti thoughts you have and your preoccupations; to open the vital nature gather it, bring it back within yourself as completely as possible and bring down calmconcentrate it here, peacein the region of the heart, lightnear the solar plexus, Ananda into so that all the active energies in the head and all that keeps the centres. Aspirebrain running, await with faith may be brought back and patience the resultconcentrated here. All This can be done in a few seconds, it can take a few minutes: that depends on each one. Well, this is a complete sincerity and an integral consecration and aspirationpreparatory attitude.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2909/surrender7-february-1957#p50p6</ref>

The unsatisfying surface play of our feeble egoistic emotions must be ousted and there must be revealed instead a secret deep and vast psychic heart within that waits behind them for its hour; all our feelingsAnd if, impelled by this inner heart in which dwells the Divinemental silence, will be transmuted into calm and intense movements a part of the being can take the attitude of the witness who observes without reacting or participating, then one can notice the effect...it produces a twin passion state of divine Love deep calm and manifold Anandasemi-trance, that is very good.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2316/self-surrender-in-works-the-way-of15-thenovember-gita1959#p4</ref>

The attitude of the witness consciousness within—I do not think it necessarily involves an external seclusion, though one may do that also—is a very necessary stage in the progress...It helps the liberation from the lower prakriti—not getting involved in the ordinary nature movements; it helps the neutral state, can deepen into positive establishment of a perfect calm and peace by a greater influx from above within, for there is then one part of the being which keeps remains detached and sees without being disturbed the perturbations of the vital not only quiescent but at least passively acquiescent. With surface; it helps also the ascent into the active interest higher consciousness and consent the descent of the vital higher consciousness, for it is through this calm, detached and liberated inner being that the ascent and descent can easily be done. Also, to have the same witness look on the peace becomes movements of Prakriti in others, seeing, understanding but not perturbed by them in any way is a glad or joyful peace or very great help towards both the liberation and the universalisation of the being. I could not therefore possibly object to this movement in a strong peace supporting and entering into action or active experiencesadhak. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3130/wronginner-movementsdetachment-ofand-the-vitalwitness-attitude#p29p32</ref>

As soon as there is For the least sign of discontentment, buzz of annoyance, the vital must be spoken to in this wayphysical mind, "My friendreject it quietly, you are going to keep calmwithout getting disturbed, you are going to do what you are asked to dotill it feels discouraged and retires shaking its head and saying, otherwise you will have to deal with me." And to the other, the enthusiast who says, "Everything must be done now, immediately", your reply This fellow is, "too calm yourself a little, your energy is excellent, but it must not be spent in five minutes. We shall need it and strong for a long time, keep it carefully and, as it is wanted, I shall call upon your goodwillme. You will show that you " There are full of goodwill, you will obey, you won't grumble, you will not protest, you will not revolt, you will say 'yes, yes', you will make a little sacrifice when asked, you will say 'yes' whole-heartedly."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/26-march-1951#p13</ref><center>~</center>The human vital is almost always of two things that nature [full of desires can rise up and fancies], but that is no reason why one should accept it as an unchangeable fact and allow a restless vital to drive one as it likes...In Yoga one uses assail the inner will and compels the vital to submit itself to tapasya so that it may become calmsilence, strong—vital suggestions, obedient—or else one calls down the calm from above obliging physical mind's mechanical recurrences. Calm rejection for both is the vital to renounce desire and become quiet and receptivecure. The vital There is a good instrument but a bad master. If you allow Purusha within who can dictate to the nature what it to follow its likes and dislikesshall admit or exclude, but its fancieswill is a strong, its desires, its bad habits, it becomes your master and peace and happiness are no longer possible. It becomes not your instrument quiet will; if one gets perturbed or agitated over the instrument of difficulties, then the Divine Shakti, but of any force will of the Ignorance or even any hostile force that is able to seize and use Purusha cannot act effectively as itwould otherwise. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3129/theconcentration-nature-of-theand-vitalmeditation#p23p35</ref>

<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/problems-in-human-relations#p20p19</ref>

The first thing There is no longer any need to accumulate acquired knowledge, received ideas which have to be memorised; it is no longer necessary to call down clutter one's brain with thousands and thousands of things in order to have at one's command, when the calm into time comes, the knowledge that is needed to perform an action, to impart a teaching, to solve a problem. The mind and is silent, the vitalbrain is still, everything is clear, quiet, calm; with and at the calm established or in course right moment, by divine Grace a drop of preparation to invite more and more light falls into the Mother's workings consciousness and grow conscious of them within you and give your assent what needs to be known is known. Why should one care to remember—why try to them and refuse all elseretain that knowledge? On the day or at the moment that it is needed one will have it again. All At each second one is a blank page on which what must be known will be inscribed—in the peace, the rest then comes in its time and by repose, the proper processsilence of a perfect receptivity.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2910/openingaphorism-4#p21p3</ref>

<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/equality-the-chief-support#p11p10</ref>

By its very The quiet consciousness of peace you now have in the mind must become not only calm but wide. You must feel it everywhere, yourself in it and all in it. This also will help to bring the calm as a basis into the action.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace-the-basis-of-the-sadhana#p12</ref><center>~</center>At first the peace and calm are not continuous, they come and go, and it usually takes a long time to get them settled in the nature . It is better therefore to avoid impatience and to go on steadily with what is being done. If you wish to have something beyond the psychic is peace and calm, let it be the full opening of the inner being and the consciousness of the Divine Power working in you. Aspire for that sincerely and with a great intensity but without impatience and it will come.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1430/the-souldanger-of-the-ego-and-the-psychicneed-of-purification#p88p51</ref>

...you manage to shift your consciousness into a higher domain, above the ordinary mind, this opening to the Light calms the mind, it does not stir any longer, and the mental silence so obtained can become constant. Once you enter into this domain, you may very well never come out of it—the external mind always remains calm. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/8-march-1951#p4</ref>

<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-sankhya-yoga-system#p49</ref><center>~</center>The quiet consciousness of peace you now have in the mind must become not only calm but wide. You must feel it everywhere, yourself in it and all in it. This also will help to bring the calm as a basis into the action.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace-the-basis-of-the-sadhana#p14p42</ref>

=='''By Surrender=='''

This complete self-surrender must be the chief mainstay of the sadhaka because it is the only way, apart from complete quiescence and indifference to all action,—and that has to be avoided,—by which the absolute calm and peace can come. The persistence of trouble, ''aśānti'', the length of time taken for this purification and perfection, itself must not be allowed to become a reason for discouragement and impatience. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-action-of-equality#p4</ref>

At first the peace ...by this surrender there comes also a calm and happy mastery of self and nature.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/surrender#p51</ref> =More on Calm= When this fever of action, of movement, this agitation of creative thought is not there, one feels one is falling into inertia. Most people fear silence, calm , quietude. They no longer feel alive when they are not continuousagitated.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/30-january-1957#p11</ref><center>~</center>''Q. O Mother, they come my sweet Mother, when shall I become one with You, when shall I live in You and gofor You?'' ''A:'' You must will with persistence, and but not get impatient. Through calm determination you will achieve it usually takes a long more quickly. By getting restless, one wastes more time to get them settled than one saves. <ref>https://incarnateword.in the nature. It is better therefore /cwm/17/13-december-1934#p1,p2</ref> <center>~</center>Not to avoid impatience judge anyone but oneself until one can see things from a calm mind and a calm vital is an excellent rule. Also, do not allow your mind to go form hasty impressions on steadily with what is being donethe strength of some outward appearance, nor your vital to act upon them.<ref>https://incarnateword. If you wish in/cwsa/31/steps-towards-overcoming-difficulties#p20</ref> <center>~</center>I always advise reading [Sri Aurobindo's writings] ''a little'' at a time, keeping the mind as quiet as one can, without making an effort to have something beyond understand, but keeping the peace head as silent as possible and letting ''the force'' contained in what one reads ''enter deep inside''. This force, received in calmand silence, let it be the full opening will do its work of the inner being illumining and will create in the consciousness of brain, if necessary, the Divine Power working in youcells required for understanding. Aspire for Thus, when one re-reads the same thing some months later, one finds that sincerely the thought expressed has become much clearer and with a great intensity but without impatience closer and it will comeeven at times quite familiar.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3016/the2-november-danger1959-1#p5</ref><center>~</center>It is quite true that falsehood reigns in this world; that is the reason why these difficulties manifest. But you have not to allow yourself to be shaken. You must remain calm and strong and go straight, using the power of-Truth and the Divine Force supporting you to overcome the-ego-difficulties and-set straight what has been made crooked by the falsehood.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-needdifficulties-of-purificationyoga#p58p29</ref>

To get rid of it one One must have always a sense of complete reliance on the Motherbe calm and equal, of surrender; that brings a calm which refuses to be moved by any outward happening not getting upset or by what people do dissatisfied when the food is not tasty or saynot in abundance—eating the fixed amount that is necessary, a happiness which is not disturbed by any occurrenceless or more. There should be neither eagerness nor repugnance.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/wrong-movements-of-the-vitalfood#p80p12</ref>

...by this surrender there comes also a By its very nature the psychic is calm and happy mastery of self and nature.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2914/surrenderthe-soul-the-psychic#p59p88</ref>