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<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). The divine life. In The life divine II.
http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-divine-life#p17</ref>
== A Tranquil and Wide Equality ==
In the spiritual ascent this power of the consciousness and its will over the instruments, the control of spirit and inner mind over the outer mentality and the nervous being and the body, increases immensely; a tranquil and wide equality of the spirit to all shocks and contacts comes in and becomes the habitual poise, and this can pass from the mind to the vital parts and establish there too an immense and enduring largeness of strength and peace; even in the body this state may form itself and meet inwardly the shocks of grief and pain and all kinds of suffering. Even, a power of willed physical insensibility can intervene or a power of mental separation from all shock and injury can be acquired which shows that the ordinary reactions and the debile submission of the bodily self to the normal habits of response of material Nature are not obligatory or unalterable.
<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). The gnostic being. In The life divine II.
http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p25</ref>
It is when there is this death of desire and this calm equal wideness in the consciousness everywhere, that the true vital being within us comes out from the veil and reveals its own calm, intense and potent presence.
<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (1999). The ascent of the sacrifice II. In The synthesis of yoga I.
http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p25</ref>
A larger psychic and emotional relation with God and the world, more deep and plastic in its essence, more wide and embracing in its movements, more capable of taking up in its sweep the whole of life, is imperative.
<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (1999). The ascent of the sacrifice II. In The synthesis of yoga I.
http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-i#p18</ref>
Those who are capable of extending the consciousness as wide as the world, become the world; but those who are shut up in their little bodies and limited feelings stop at those limits; their bodies and their petty feelings are to them their whole self.
(The Mother, 5 May 1929)
<ref>The Mother. (2002). 5 May 1929. In Questions and answers (1929-1931).
http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/5-may-1929#p16</ref>
True repose comes from the widening, the universalisation of the consciousness. Become as vast as the world and you will always be at rest. In the thick of action, in the very midst of the battle, the effort, you will know the repose of infinity and eternity.
<ref>The Mother. (2003). 20 March 1957. In Questions and answers (1957-1958).
http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/20-march-1957#p19</ref>
Widen your consciousness and your memory will increase.
(The Mother, 16 September 1953)
<ref>The Mother. (1998). 16 September 1953. In Questions and answers 1953.
http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/16-september-1953#p27</ref>
Outside the mental memory, which is something defective, there are states of consciousness. Each state of consciousness in which one happen to be registers the phenomena of that moment, whatever they may be. If your consciousness remain limpid, wide and strong, you can at any moment whatsoever, by concentrating, call into the active consciousness what you did, thought, saw, observed at any time before; all this you can remember by bringing up in yourself the same state of consciousness. And that, that is never for gotten. You could live a thousand years and you would remember it. Consequently, if you don't want to forget, it must be your consciousness which remembers and not your mental memory. Your mental memory will perforce be wiped out, get blurred, and new things will take the place of the old ones. But things of which you are conscious you do not forget. You have only to bring up the same state of consciousness again.
(The Mother, 10 February 1954)
<ref>The Mother. (2003). 10 February 1954. In Questions and answers 1954.
http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/10-february-1954#p10</ref>
And when you enter into this consciousness where you see all things in a single look, the infinite multitude of relations between the Divine and men, you see how wonderful all that is, in all details. You can look at the history of mankind and see how much the Divine has evolved according to what men have understood, desired, hoped, dreamed and how He was materialist with the materialist and how He grows every day and becomes nearer, more luminous according as human consciousness widens itself. Each one is free to choose. The perfection of this endless variety of relations of man with God throughout the history of the world is an ineffable marvel. And all that together is only one second of the total manifestation of the Divine.
(The Mother, 1970)
<ref>The Mother. (2013). Relations with others. In Words of the mother I.
http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/relations-with-others#p94</ref>