=Why Is Calm Important?=
This It is in calm, peace and surrender are the right atmosphere for all that one can unify one's being around the rest to come, knowledge, strength, Ananda. Let it become completehighest aspiration.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2917/peace-the-basis-of14-thefebruary-sadhana1935#p1p2</ref>
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>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-difficulties-of-human-nature#p30</ref> ...it It is in a calm and patient confidence that lies the certitude of victory.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/letters-to-a-young-sadhak-vii#p17</ref> One 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>
==In Different Parts of Being==
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/30-january-1939#p8</ref>
To bear illness with The imperative condition for cure is calmand quietness. Any agitation, equanimity, endurance, even recognition of it, since it has come, as something that had to be passed through in any nervousness prolongs the course of experienceillness. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3115/illnesspeace-and-quiet-faith-and-healthsurrender#p66p22</ref>
===Mental===When one is quite calm, well balanced, very quiet, one has a solid basis and can receive a large number of forces.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/15-april-1953#p13</ref>
So long as the mind is restless, it is not possible to get at the inner Truth. Calm, peace, quietude—that is the first necessary condition.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace-the-basis-of-the-sadhana#p27</ref>===Vital===
===Vital===
It is only in the calm that one can know and do. All that is done in agitation and violence is an aberration and a folly. The first sign of the divine presence in the being is peace.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/messages-for-the-annual-re-opening-of-classes#p18</ref>
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>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/fear#p14</ref>
You have only to calm the agitation of your mind and vital a little, remain a bit quiet and concentrated, and at once you will find my presence within you and around you.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/1-november-1934-1#p2</ref>===Mental===
==For Yoga==So long as the mind is restless, it is not possible to get at the inner Truth. Calm, peace, quietude—that is the first necessary condition.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace-the-basis-of-the-sadhana#p27</ref>
It is the first secret of Yoga, to maintain calm and still mind much more readily and with a much greater purity than the inner calm always mind in agitation and from action that calm opens to meet everythingthe Infinite, reflects the Spirit, becomes full of the Self and awaits like a consecrated and purified temple the unveiling of the Lord of all our being and nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2924/quietthe-andintuitive-calmmind#p62p5</ref>
The Yogic attitude consists ==Importance in calm, detachment, equality, universality—added to this the psychic element, bhakti, love, devotion to the Divine.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/equality-the-chief-support#p2</ref>Yoga==
==For Descent It is the first secret of Force==Yoga, to maintain the inner calm always and from that calm to meet everything.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p62</ref>
PeaceWideness and calmness are the foundation of the Yogic consciousness and the best condition for inner growth and experience. If a wide calm can be established in the physical consciousness, Calmoccupying and filling the very body and all its cells, Quiet as a Basis that can become the basis for its transformation; in fact, without this wideness and calmness the Descenttransformation is hardly possible.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3029/peace-the-descentbasis-of-the-higher-powerssadhana#p9p18</ref>
=How Can One Achieve Calm of the Self must be fixed—otherwise the active Descent may 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#p11</ref>?=
==For Work== What you write about the work is correctOne sits quietly, to begin with; and then, instead of thinking of fifty things, one begins saying to work in oneself, "Peace, peace, peace, peace, peace, calm, peace!" One imagines peace and calm. One aspires, asks that it may come: "Peace, peace, calm." And then, when something comes and touches one and acts, say quietly, like this calm ever-widening consciousness , "Peace, peace, peace." One must not look and listen to the thoughts. One must not pay attention to everything that comes. It is at once as though one were learning how to call a sādhanā friend: by dint of being called he comes. One makes peace and calm one’s friends and a siddhi.calls them: "Come, peace, peace, peace, peace, come!"<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3006/inner8-experiencesseptember-in-the-state-of-samadhi1954#p26p45,p46</ref> =How Can One Achieve Calm?=
You sit quietlyAs soon as there is the least sign of discontentment, of annoyance, the vital must be spoken to begin with; and thenin this way, "My friend, instead of thinking of fifty thingsyou are going to keep calm, you begin saying are going to yourselfdo what you are asked to do, otherwise you will have to deal with me."PeaceAnd to the other, peacethe enthusiast who says, peace"Everything must be done now, peaceimmediately", peaceyour reply is, "calmyourself a little, peace!" You imagine peace and calmyour energy is excellent, but it must not be spent in five minutes. You aspireWe shall need it for a long time, ask that keep it may come: "Peacecarefully and, peaceas it is wanted, calmI shall call upon your goodwill." And thenYou will show that you are full of goodwill, when something comes and touches you and actswill obey, say quietlyyou won't grumble, like thisyou will not protest, "Peaceyou will not revolt, peaceyou will say 'yes, peace." Do not look at the thoughtsyes', do not listen to the thoughtsyou will make a little sacrifice when asked, you understand. You must not pay attention to everything that comeswill say 'yes' whole-heartedly. "<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0604/826-septembermarch-19541951#p45p13</ref>
It is as though you were learning how to call a friend: by dint To control the buzz of being called he comes. Wellthe physical mind, one must reject it quietly, without getting disturbed, make peace till it feels discouraged and retires shaking its head and saying, "This fellow is too calm your friends and call them: strong for me."ComeThere are always two things that can rise up and assail the silence, peace—vital suggestions, peacethe physical mind's mechanical recurrences. Calm rejection for both is the cure. There is a Purusha within who can dictate to the nature what it shall admit or exclude, peacebut its will is a strong, peacequiet will; if one gets perturbed or agitated over the difficulties, come!"then the will of the Purusha cannot act effectively as it would otherwise.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0629/8concentration-septemberand-1954meditation#p46p35</ref>
Before you go to sleepSurrender everything, reject all other desires or interests, concentrate a few seconds in call on the aspiration that divine Shakti to open the sleep may restore your fatigued nerves, vital nature and bring down calm and quietness to your brain so that on waking you may, with renewed vigourpeace, light, begin again your journey on Ananda into all the path of centres. Aspire, await with faith and patience the great discoveryresult. All depends on a complete sincerity and an integral consecration and aspiration.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1229/psychic-education-and-spiritual-educationsurrender#p13p43</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>
{|class="wikitable" style= "background-color: #efefff; width: 100%;"