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== What are Expansion and Widening? ==
Man is there to affirm himself in the universe, that is his first business, but also to evolve and finally to exceed himself: he has to enlarge his partial being into a complete being, his partial consciousness into an integral consciousness; he has to achieve mastery of his environment but also world-union and world-harmony; he has to realise his individuality but also to enlarge it into a cosmic self and a universal and spiritual delight of existence. A transformation, a chastening and correction of all that is obscure, erroneous and ignorant in his mentality, an ultimate arrival at a free and wide harmony and luminousness of knowledge and will and feeling and action and character, is the evident intention of his nature; it is the ideal which the creative Energy has imposed on his intelligence, a need implanted by her in his mental and vital substance. But this can only be accomplished by his growing into a larger being and a larger consciousness: self-enlargement, self-fulfilment, self-evolution from what he partially and temporarily is in his actual and apparent nature to what he completely is in his secret self and spirit and therefore can become even in his manifest existence, is the object of his creation. This hope is the justification of his life upon earth amidst the phenomena of the cosmos. The outer apparent man, an ephemeral being subject to the constraints of his material embodiment and imprisoned in a limited mentality, has to be come the inner real Man, master of himself and his environment and universal in his being. In a more vivid and less metaphysical language, the natural man has to evolve himself into the divine Man; the sons of Death have to know themselves as the children of Immortality. It is on this account that the human birth can be described as the turning-point in the evolution, the critical stage in earth-nature.
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<center>~</center> We must go farther on, we must advance, climb greater heights and go beyond the arid search for pleasure and personal welfare, not through fear of punishment, even punishment after death, but through the development of a new sense of beauty, a thirst for truth and light, through understanding that it is only by widening yourself, illumining yourself, setting yourself ablaze with the ardour for progress, that you can find both integral peace and enduring happiness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/punishment#p24</ref> == What is Expansion and Widening? =Growth of the Mind ===
Our true happiness lies in the true growth of our whole being, in a victory throughout the total range of our existence, in mastery of the inner as well as and more than the outer, the hidden as well as the overt nature; our true completeness comes not by describing wider circles on the plane where we began, but by transcendence. It is for this reason that, after the first necessary foundation in life and matter, we have to heighten our force of consciousness, deepen, widen, subtilise it; we must first liberate our mental selves and enter into a freer, finer and nobler play of our mental existence: for the mental is much more than the physical our true existence, because we are even in our instrumental or expressive nature predominantly mind and not matter, mental much rather than physical beings. That growth into the full mental being is the first transitional movement towards human perfection and freedom; it does not actually perfect, it does not liberate the soul, but it lifts us one step out of the material and vital absorption and prepares the loosening of the hold of the Ignorance.
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==Why is it Important? ==
 
 
Widen your consciousness to the dimension of the earth and you will have a place for everything.
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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.
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'''Transcending the Limits of Mind, Life, Body <center>~</center>
'''What we discover within this secret part of ourselves is an inner being, a soul, an inner mind, an inner life, an inner subtle-physical entity which is much larger in its potentialities, more plastic, more powerful, more To become capable of a manifold knowledge receiving and dynamism than our surface mind, life or body; especially, it is capable of a direct communication with bearing the universal forces, movements, objects light of the cosmos, a direct feeling and opening to themTruth, a direct action on them and even a widening of itself beyond the limits of the personal mindmust be made strong, the personal life, the body, so that it feels itself more wide and more a universal being no longer limited by the existing walls of our too narrow mental, vital, physical existencesupple. This widening can extend itself to a complete entry into the consciousness of cosmic Mind, into unity with the universal Life, even into a oneness with universal Matter.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). Supermind mind and the overmind maya. In The life divine I.http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2112/supermind-mind-and-theother-overmind-mayasubjects#p5p15</ref> ==== Enrichment of Faculties ====
The divine embraces are embraces of soul and of consciousness, and they can be reproduced among human beings only by a widening of the Widen your consciousness, understanding and feelings—a widening that enables you to understand everything and love everything, without preference or exclusivenessyour memory will increase.(The Mother, 26 November 1960)<ref>The Mother. (2003). 26 november 1960. In Some answers from the mother.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/16/26-novemberseptember-19601953#p3p27</ref>
'''Living as a Universal Being''' <center>~</center>
ManOutside the mental memory, the individualwhich is something defective, has to become and to live as a universal being; his limited mental there are states of consciousness. Each state of consciousness has to widen to the superconscient unity in which each embraces all; his narrow heart has one happen to learn be registers the infinite embrace phenomena of that moment, whatever they may be. If your consciousness remain limpid, wide and replace its lusts and discords strong, you can at any moment whatsoever, by universal love and his restricted vital being to become equal to concentrating, call into the whole shock of the universe upon it and capable of universal delightactive consciousness what you did, thought, saw, observed at any time before; his very physical being has to know itself as no separate entity but as one with and sustaining all this you can remember by bringing up in itself yourself the whole flow same state of the indivisible Force consciousness. And that, that is all things; his whole nature has never for gotten. You could live a thousand years and you would remember it. Consequently, if you don't want to reproduce in the individual the unityforget, 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 harmony, place of the oneness-in-all old ones. But things of which you are conscious you do not forget. You have only to bring up the supreme Existence-Consciousness-Blisssame state of consciousness again.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). Supermind mind and the overmind maya. In The life divine I.http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2106/delight-of10-existence-thefebruary-solution1954#p18p10</ref>
As the individual has a consciousness of his own, so too there is a universal consciousness, a cosmic Being, a universal Mind, a universal Life, a universal physical conscious Nature. We are unaware of it because we are shut up in our outer physical selves. By the inner awakening and the opening above we become aware of this cosmic consciousness, cosmic Nature and cosmic Self and its movements; our consciousness can widen and become one with it. The forces of universal Nature are always working on us without our knowing how they act or being able to get any general control over their action on us. By becoming conscious of the universal we are able to detect this working and control it.<refcenter>Sri Aurobindo. (2012). Sachchidananda:existence,consciousness-force and bliss. In Letters on yoga I.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/sachchidananda-existence-consciousness-force-and-bliss#p23~</refcenter>
Develop the cosmic consciousness—let the egocentric outlook disappear in widenessJoy of being, impersonalitydelight of realisation by knowledge, the sense rapture of the cosmic Divinepossession by will and power or creative force, ecstasy of union in love and joy are the perception highest terms of universal forces, expanding life because they are the realisation and understanding essence of the cosmic manifestation, the playexistence itself in its hidden roots as on its yet unseen heights.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2014). Conditions of transformation. In Letters on yoga III.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3021/conditionsthe-sevenfold-chord-of-transformationbeing#p10p14</ref>
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One has in his consciousness This growth of the feeling of rising above what is obscure conscious being, an expansion, an increasing self-expression, a more and ordinary and unconscious, more harmonised development of raising himself—because usually our head his constituent members is on top the whole meaning and our head is more conscious than all the rest pith of our body—and the impression that there human existence. It is above him a greater for this meaningful development of consciousness. So when one makes an effort to progressby thought, will, emotion, desire, action and experience, at leading in the same time one makes an effort of ascent. Sometimes one has even symbolically the impression of climbing end to a mountain and wanting to reach the summitsupreme divine self-discovery, that isMan, as close as possible to the free expanses of the lightmental being, of what is purer. And if one doesn't take care, quite naturally, spontaneously, one slips back has entered into the ordinary consciousnessmaterial body.(The Mother, 30 March 1955)<ref>The Mother. (2003). 30 March 1955. In Questions and answers (1955).http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0723/30self-marchsurrender-in-works-the-way-of-the-1955gita#p18p2</ref>
The lightness, the feeling of the disappearance of the head and that all is open is a sign of the wideness of the mental consciousness which is no longer limited by the brain and its body sense—no longer imprisoned but wide and free. This is felt in the meditation only at first or with closed eyes, but at a later stage it becomes established and one feels always oneself a wide consciousness not limited by any feeling of the body. <refcenter>Sri Aurobindo. (2014). The universal or cosmic consciousness. In Letters on yoga III.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-universal-or-cosmic-consciousness#p35~</refcenter>
= Why It is Expansion 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 Widening potent presence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of Consciousness Needed =-the-sacrifice-ii#p25</ref>
== Evolution ==<center>~</center>
For So far as we really succeed in living for others, it is done by an inner spiritual force of love and sympathy; but the initiation power and field of effectuality of this force in us are small, the evolutionary emergence from the Inconscient works out by two forcespsychic movement that prompts it is incomplete, a secret cosmic consciousness its action often ignorant because there is contact of mind and heart but our being does not embrace the being of others as ourselves. An external unity with others must always be an individual consciousness manifest on outward joining and association of external lives with a minor inner result; the surface. The secret cosmic consciousness remains secret mind and subliminal heart attach their movements to this common life and the surface individualbeings whom we meet there; it organises itself on but the surface by common external life remains the creation foundation,—the inward constructed unity, or so much of separate objects and beings. But while it organises the separate object as can persist in spite of mutual ignorance and the body and mind discordant egoisms, conflict of minds, conflict of hearts, conflict of the individual beingvital temperaments, it creates also collective powers conflict of interests, is a partial and insecure superstructure. The spiritual consciousness which are large subjective formations , the spiritual life reverses this principle of cosmic Naturebuilding; but it does not provide for them bases its action in the collective life upon an organised mind inner experience and bodyinclusion of others in our own being, it bases them on the group an inner sense and reality of individuals, develops for them a group mind, a changing yet continuous group bodyoneness. It follows The spiritual individual acts out of that only as the individuals become more sense of oneness which gives him immediate and more conscious can direct perception of the group-being also become more and more conscious; demand of self on other self, the growth need of the individual is life, the indispensable means for good, the inner growth as distinguished from the outer force work of love and expansion of the collective being…sympathy that can truly be done. But this is an efficiency A realisation of the outer lifespiritual unity, and that life is not a dynamisation of the highest or last term intimate consciousness of our one-being.There is a mind in us, there is a soul and spirit, and our life has no true value if it has not of one self in it a growing consciousness, a developing mindall beings, can alone found and if life and mind are not an expression, an instrument, a means govern by its truth the action of liberation and fulfilment for the soul, the indwelling Spiritdivine life.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). The progress to knowledge - god,man and nature. In The life divine II.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-progressdivine-to-knowledge-god-man-and-naturelife#p15p17</ref>
All evolution is in essence a heightening of the force of consciousness in the manifest being so that it may be raised into the greater intensity of what is still unmanifest, from matter into life, from life into mind, from the mind into the spirit. It is this that must be the method of our growth from a mental into a spiritual and supramental manifestation, out of a still half-animal humanity into a divine being and a divine living. There must be achieved a new spiritual height, wideness, depth, subtlety, intensity of our consciousness, of its substance, its force, its sensibility, an elevation, expansion, plasticity, integral capacity of our being, and an assumption of mind and all that is below mind into that larger existence. In a future transformation the character of the evolution, the principle of evolutionary process, although modified, will not fundamentally change but, on a vaster scale and in a liberated movement, royally continue. A change into a higher consciousness or state of being is not only the whole aim and process of religion, of all higher askesis, of Yoga, but it is also the very trend of our life itself, the secret purpose found in the sum of its labour. The principle of life in us seeks constantly to confirm and perfect itself on the planes of mind, vitality and body which it already possesses; but it is self-driven also to go beyond and transform these gains into means for the conscious spirit to unfold in Nature. If it is merely some part of ourselves, intellect, heart, will or vital desire-self, which, dissatisfied with its own imperfection and with the world, strives to get away from it to a greater height of existence, content to leave the rest of the nature to take care of itself or to perish, then such a result of total transformation would not eventuate—or, at least, would not eventuate here. But this is not the integral trend of our existence; there is a labour of Nature in us to ascend with all ourself into a higher principle of being than it has yet evolved here, but it is not her whole will in this ascension to destroy herself in order that that higher principle may be exclusively affirmed by the rejection and extinction of Nature. To heighten the force of consciousness until it passes from a mental, vital and physical instrumentation into the essence and power of the spirit is the indispensable thing, but that is not the sole object or all the thing to be done.<refcenter>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). Out of the sevenfold ignorance towards the sevenhold knowledge. In The life divine II.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/out-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-sevenfold-knowledge#p1~</refcenter>
This action of elevation and expansion is not confined to an utmost possible largeness in the essential play of the new principle itself; it includes a taking up of that which is lower into the higher values: the divine or spiritual life will not only assume into itself the mental, vital, physical life transformed and spiritualised, but it will give them a much wider and fuller play than was open to them so long as they were living on their own level. Our mental, physical, vital existence need not be destroyed by our self-exceeding, nor are they lessened and impaired by being spiritualised; they can and do become much richer, greater, more powerful and more perfect: in their divine change they break into possibilities which in their unspiritualised condition could not be practicable or imaginable.
<ref>Sri Aurobindohttp://incarnateword. (2005). Out in/cwsa/22/out-of -the -sevenfold -ignorance -towards -the -sevenfold -knowledge#p1</ref> <center>~</center> It is the pressure of the mind-world which evolves and develops mind here and helps us to find a leverage for our mental self-uplifting and expansion, so that we may hope to enlarge continually our self of intelligence and even to break the prison walls of our matter-bound physical mentality. In The life divine IIIt is the pressure of the supramental and spiritual worlds which is preparing to develop here the manifest power of the spirit and by it open our being on the physical plane into the freedom and infinity of the super conscient Divine; that contact, that pressure can alone liberate from the apparent Inconscience, which was our starting-point, the all-conscient Godhead concealed in us.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/outthe-order-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-worlds#p21</ref> == How to Expand or Widen? ==  ==== By Identification ==== The easiest way is to identify yourself with something vast. For instance, when you feel that you are shut up in a completely narrow and limited thought, will, consciousness, when you feel as though you were in a shell, then if you begin thinking about something very vast, as for example, the immensity of the waters of an ocean, and if really you can think of this ocean and how it stretches out far, far, far, far, in all directions, like this (''Mother stretches out her arms''), how, compared with you, it is so far, so far that you cannot see the other shore, you cannot reach its end anywhere, neither behind nor in front nor to theright or left... it is wide, wide, wide, wide... you think of this and then you feel that you are floating on this sea, like that, and that there are no limits... This is very easy. Then you can widen your consciousness a little.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/29-sevenfoldseptember-knowledge1954#p1p35</ref>
Man is ==== By Doing Many Different Things ==== I say there to affirm himself in the universe, that a great variety of subjects should be studied. I believe that is his first businessit. For instance, if you are at school, but also to evolve and finally to exceed himself: he has to enlarge his partial being into a complete beingstudy all the subjects possible. If you are reading at home, his partial consciousness into an integral consciousness; he has not to achieve mastery read just one kind of his environment but also world-union and world-harmony; he has to realise his individuality but also to enlarge it into a cosmic self and a universal and spiritual delight thing, read all sorts of existencedifferent things. A transformationAnd as for me, a chastening and correction of I was scolded all that is obscurethe time because I did many different things! And I was always told I would never be good at anything. I studied, I did painting, I did music, erroneous and ignorant in his mentalitybesides was busy with other things still. And I was told my music wouldn’t be up to much, my painting wouldn’t be worthwhile, an ultimate arrival at a free and wide harmony and luminousness my studies would be quite incomplete. Probably it is quite true, but still I have found that this had its advantages—those very advantages I am speaking about, of knowledge widening, making supple one’s mind and will and feeling and action and character, understanding.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/10-february-1954#p1</ref> <center>~</center> It is the evident intention of his nature; it is the ideal which the creative Energy has imposed on his intelligence, a need implanted by her in his mental and vital substancesame thing everywhere. But this can only be accomplished by his growing into Only those who have developed a larger being little artistic taste, have travelled much and a larger seen many things have widened their consciousnessand they are no longer so sectarian.<ref>http: self//incarnateword.in/cwm/05/21-enlargement, selfoctober-fulfilment, self-evolution from what he partially and temporarily 1953#p61</ref> <center>~</center> … this is in his actual and apparent nature being continuously repeated to what he completely me: if anything is in his secret self and spirit and therefore can become even in his manifest existenceto be done properly, one must specialize. It is the object of his creationsame thing for sports also. This hope It is the justification of his same for every thing in life upon earth amidst the phenomena of the cosmos. The outer apparent manIt is said and repeated, an ephemeral being subject and there are people who will prove it: to the constraints of his material embodiment do something well one must specialize. One must do that and imprisoned in concentrate. If one wants to become a limited mentalitygood philosopher, one must learn only philosophy, has if one wants to be come the inner real Mana good chemist, one must learn chemistry only. And if one wants to become a good tennis-player, one must play only tennis. That's not what I think, master of himself that is all I can say. My experience is different. I believe there are general faculties and his environment that it is much more important to acquire these than to specialise—unless, naturally, it be like M. and universal in his beingMme. In Curie who wanted to develop a more vivid and less metaphysical languagecertain science, find something new, the natural man has then of course they were compelled to evolve himself into the divine Manconcentrate on that science. But still that was only till they had discovered it; once they had found it, nothing stopped them from widening their mind.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/10-february-1954#p4</ref> <center>~</center> Naturally, as soon as races, species, nationalities intermix, it produces a mixture of egos. And then the sons of Death have horizon begins to know themselves widen. It is as when one tries to widen his mind, to understand many different things, study many languages, the children knowledge of Immortalitymany countries and ages, one widens his ego very much, one begins to grow less narrow-minded. Naturally, with yoga one can overcome all this consciously.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/12-january-1955#p29</ref> <center>~</center> It is on this account that like the people who cultivate their intelligence, who learn, read, think, compare, study. These people's minds widen and they are much vaster and more understanding than those who live without mental education, with a few petty ideas which sometimes are even contradictory in their consciousness and govern them totally because these are the human birth only ones they have and they think these are unique ideas which should guide their life; these people are altogether narrow and limited whereas those who are trained and have studied—this at least widens their minds and they can be described as the turning-point see, compare ideas and see that all possible ideas are there in the evolutionworld and that it is a pettiness, an absurdity to be attached to a limited number of ideas and consider them the critical stage exclusive expression of truth. <ref>http://incarnateword.in earth/cwm/07/23-nature.february-1955#p6</ref> <refcenter>~</center>Sri Aurobindo So, never come to me saying, "I am no good at this subject, I shall never understand philosophy" or "I shall never be able to do mathematics" or. (2005). The progress . It is ignorance, it is sheer ignorance. There is nothing you cannot understand if you give your brain the time to widen and perfect itself. And you can from one mental construction to another: this corresponds to studies; from one subject to another: and each subject of study means a language; from one language to another, and build up one thing after another within you, and contain all that and many more things yet, very harmoniously, if you do this with care and take your time over it. For each one of these branches of knowledge -godcorresponds to an inner formation,man and natureyou can multiply these formations indefinitely if you give the necessary time and care. In The life divine II.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2208/the12-progress-to-knowledge-god-man-anddecember-nature1956#p2p15</ref>
This growth ====Intellectual Ways of the conscious being, an expansion, an increasing self-expression, a more and more harmonised development of his constituent members is the whole meaning and all the pith of human existence. It is for this meaningful development of consciousness by thought, will, emotion, desire, action and experience, leading in the end to a supreme divine self-discovery, that Man, the mental being, has entered into the material body.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (1999). Self-surrender in works - the way of the gita. In synthesis of yoga I.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/self-surrender-in-works-the-way-of-the-gita#p2</ref>Widening ====
It There are lots of intellectual ways of widening the consciousness. These I have explained fully in my book. But in any case, when you are bored by something, when something is painful to you or very unpleasant, if you begin to think of the pressure eternity of time and the mind-world which evolves immensity of space, if you think of all that has gone before and develops mind here all that will come afterwards, and helps us to find that this second in eternity is truly just a leverage for our mental self-uplifting passing breath, and expansion, that it seems so that we may hope utterly ridiculous to enlarge continually our self be upset by something which in the eternity of intelligence and time is... one doesn't even have the time to break the prison walls become aware of our matter-bound physical mentalityit, it has no place, no importance, because, what indeed is a second in eternity? If one can manage to realise that, to... how to put it?... It visualise, picture the little person one is, in the little earth where one is , and the pressure tiny second of consciousness which for the supramental moment is hurting you or is unpleasant for you, just this—which in itself is only a second in your existence, and that you yourself have been many things before and spiritual worlds will be many more things afterwards, that what affects you now you will have probably completely forgotten in ten years, or if you remember it you will say, "How did I happen to attach any importance to that?"... if you can realise that first and then realise your little person which is preparing to develop here the manifest power a second in eternity, not even a second, you know, imperceptible, a fragment of a second in eternity, that the spirit whole world has unrolled before this and by it open our being on will unroll yet, indefinitely—before, behind—and that... well, then suddenly you see the physical plane into the freedom and infinity utter ridiculousness of the super conscient Divine; that contactimportance you attach to what happened to you... Truly you feel... to what an extent it is absurd to attach any importance to one's life, to oneself, that pressure can alone liberate from and to what happen to you. And in the apparent Inconsciencespace of three minutes, which was our starting-pointif you do this properly, the all-conscient Godhead concealed unpleasantness is swept away. Even a very deep pain can be swept away. Simply a concentration like this, and to place oneself in usinfinity and eternity.<ref>Sri AurobindoEverything goes away. (2005)One comes out of it cleansed. The order One can get rid of all attachments and even, I say, of the deepest sorrows—of everything, in this way—if one knows how to do it in the worldsright way. It immediately takes you out of your little ego. In The life divine IIThere we are.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2206/the-order-of29-theseptember-worlds1954#p21p38</ref>
== Integral Peace and Enduring Happiness ==<center>~</center>
We must go farther on, ''Q. How is it that we must advance, climb greater heights and go beyond the arid search for pleasure and personal welfare, not through fear of punishment, even punishment after death, but through the development of a new sense of beauty, lose a thirst for truth and light, through understanding that it is only chance to widen our knowledge by widening yourself, illumining yourself, setting yourself ablaze with the ardour for progress, that you can find both integral peace and enduring happiness.(The Mother, 18 April 1958)<ref>The Mother. (2002). Punishment. In Questions and answers (1929-1931).http://incarnateword.prevailing in/cwm/03/punishment#p24</ref>a debate?''
Our true happiness lies ''A.'' If you prevail in a debate, it means that your opinion has prevailed over the true growth opinion of our whole beinganother, in not necessarily because yours was truer than his, but because you were better at wielding the arguments or because you were a victory throughout more stubborn debater. And you come out of the total range of our existence, discussion convinced that you are right in mastery what you assert; and so you lose a chance to see a view of the inner as well as question other than your own and more than to add an aspect of the outer, truth to the hidden as well as one or the overt nature; our true completeness comes not by describing wider circles on the plane where we began, but by transcendenceones you already possess. It is for this reason that, after the first necessary foundation You remain imprisoned in life your own thought and matter, we have refuse to heighten our force of consciousness, deepen, widen, subtilise it; we must first liberate our mental selves and enter into a freer. [Based on Aphorism 56 — When, finer and nobler play of our mental existence: for the mental is much more than the physical our true existenceO eager disputant, because we are even thou hast prevailed in our instrumental or expressive nature predominantly mind and not mattera debate, mental much rather than physical beings. That growth into the full mental being is the first transitional movement towards human perfection and freedomthen art thou greatly to be pitied; it does not actually perfect, it does not liberate the soul, but it lifts us one step out for thou hast lost a chance of the material and vital absorption and prepares the loosening of the hold of the Ignorancewidening knowledge.]<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). Out of the sevenfold ignorance towards the sevenfold knowledge. In The life divine II.http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2210/out-of-theaphorism-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-sevenfold-knowledge56#p4p11</ref>
Joy of being, delight of realisation by knowledge, rapture of possession by will and power or creative force, ecstasy of union in love and joy are the highest terms of expanding life because they are the essence of existence itself in its hidden roots as on its yet unseen heights.<refcenter>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). The sevenfold chord of being. In The life divine I.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-sevenfold-chord-of-being#p14~</refcenter>
A freer play For instance, you are with someone. This person tells you something, you tell him the contrary (as it usually happens, simply through a spirit of intuition contradiction) and sympathy and understanding would enter into human lifeyou begin arguing. Naturally, you will never come to any point, except a clearer sense quarrel if you are ill-natured. But instead of the truth doing that, instead of self remaining shut up in your own ideas or your own words, if you tell yourself: "Wait a little, I am going to try and see why he said that to me. Yes, why did he tell me that?" And you concentrate: "Why, why, why?" You stand there, just like that, trying. The other person continues speaking, doesn't he?—and is very happy too, for you don't contradict him any longer! He talks profusely and things is sure he has convinced you. Then you concentrate more and a more enlightened dealing on what he is saying, and with the opportunities and difficulties of existencefeeling that gradually, through his words, you are entering his mind. Instead When you enter his head, suddenly you enter into his way of a constant intermixed thinking, and confused struggle between the growth of Consciousness and the power of the Inconsciencenext, just imagine, between the forces of light and the forces of darknessyou understand why he is speaking to you thus! And then, the evolution would become if you have a graded progression from lesser light fairly swift intelligence and put what you have just come to greater light; in each stage of it understand alongside what you had known before, you have the conscious beings belonging to that stage would respond to two ways together, and so can find the inner Consciousness-Force and expand their own law of cosmic Nature towards truth reconciling both. And here you have truly made progress. And this is the possibility of a higher degree best way of that Naturewidening one's thought.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). The gnostic being. In The life divine II.http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2205/the12-gnosticaugust-being1953#p5p11</ref>
== Silence ==<center>~</center>
It is For example, when you have a small narrow vision of something and are hurt by full entry into this wideness others' vision and point of the Self that cessation of mental activity becomes possible; one gets the inner Silence. After that this inner Silence can remain even when there is activity of any kind; the being remains silent withinview, you must begin by shifting your consciousness, the action goes on try to put it in the instruments others, and one receives try gradually to identify yourself with all the necessary indications and execution different ways of action whether mental, vital or physical from a higher source without the fundamental peace and calm thinking of the Spirit being troubledall others.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2013). The newness of the integral yoga. In Letters on yoga II.http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/06/29/the-newness-of-the-integralseptember-yoga1954#p5p37</ref>
== Peace and Calmness ==<center>~</center>
But in order that Easily we feel attracted towards people who bring a reinforcement to our nervous envelope; we are repelled by those who disturb or hurt it. Whatever gives it may go on developing, you must become more a sense of expansion and comfort and more quietease, more and more able to hold whatever comes without getting too eager makes it respond with a feeling of happiness and excited. Peace and calmness are pleasure exercises on us at once an attraction; when the effect is in the first thingcontrary sense, and it responds with it wideness—in the peace you can bear whatever love or Ananda comes, whatever strength comes or whatever knowledgea protecting repulsion.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2012). The true being and the true consciousness. In Letters on yoga I.http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2803/the-true-being-and-the16-truejune-consciousness1929#p15p12</ref>
It is as though you were in the midst of a big cyclone. It happens at times that the wind is so violent that you are not able to stand—you have to lie down and wait till it blows over. Now, the divine forces are a thousand times stronger than a cyclonic wind. If you do not have in you a very wide receptivity, an extremely solid basis of calmness, of equality of soul and inner peace, they come and carry you away like a gale and you cannot resist them. It is the same thing with light; some people get a pain in the eyes when they look at the sun and are obliged to put on dark glasses because sunlight is too strong for them. But this is merely sunlight. When you are able to look at the supramental light, it appears to you so brilliant that sunlight seems like a black stain in comparison. One must have strong eyes and a solid brain to bear that, one must be well prepared, established in something extremely calm and vast—it is as though one had such a strong basis of tranquillity that when the storm passes, when the light comes with a great intensity, one is able to remain immobile and receive what one can without being knocked over.(The Mother, 12 February 1951)<refcenter>The Mother. (2002). 12 february 1951. In Questions and answers (1950-1951).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/12-february-1951#p5~</refcenter>
== To Become Capable You must widen your consciousness and understand that everyone has his own law. It is necessary to find the ground of Receiving ==understanding and harmony in a happy combination of individual wills and not to try that all may be the same in an identical will and action. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/narrowness-and-one-sidedness#p2</ref>
To become capable of receiving and bearing the light of the Truth, the mind must be made strong, wide and supple..(The Mother, 17 December 1966)<ref>The Mother. (2003). Other subjects. In On education.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/other-subjects#p15</ref>====By Relaxation ====
We For instance, you are at reading something and come across a decisive hour thought you don't understand—it is beyond you, you understand nothing and so in the history of the earthyour head it lies like a brick, and if you try to understand, it becomes more and more like a brick, a stiffening, and if you persist it gives you a headache. It There is preparing for but one thing to do: not to struggle with the coming of the superman words, remain just like this (gesture, stretched out, immobile), create a relaxation, simply widen, widen. And don't try to understand, above all, don't try to understand—let it enter like that, quite gently, and relax, relax, and because of in this the old way relaxing your headache goes away. You no longer think of life anything, you wait for a few days and after some days you see from inside: "Oh! How clear it is! I understand what I had not understood." It is losing its valueas easy as that. We When you read a book which is beyond you, when you come across sentences which you cannot understand—one feels that there is no correspondence in the head—well, you must strike out boldly on do this; one reads the path of thing once, twice, thrice, then remains calm and makes the future despite its new demandsmind silent. The pettinesses once tolerableA fortnight later, are tolerable no longer. We must widen ourselves to receive what one takes up the same passage again and it is going to comeclear as daylight.(The Mother,29 December 1971)<ref>The Mother. (2003). Series fourteen - to a sadhak. In Some Answers from the mother.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1604/2931-decembermarch-19711951#p1p19</ref>
Widen your consciousness to the dimension of the earth and you will have a place for everything.(The Mother, 20 September 1971)<ref>The Mother. (2003). Aims and principles. In Words of the mother I.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/aims-and-principles#p331</ref>==== By Unfolding Oneself ====
== To Get Rid But if, when you have to face anguish, suffering, revolt, pain or a feeling of helplessness—whatever it may be, all the Egoistic Ignorance ==things that come to you on the path and which precisely are your difficulties—if physically, that is to say, in your body-consciousness, you can have the feeling of widening yourself, one could say of unfolding yourself—you feel as it were all folded up, one fold on another like a piece of cloth which is folded and refolded and folded again—so if you have this feeling that what is holding and strangling you and making you suffer or paralysing your movement, is like a too closely, too tightly folded piece of cloth or like a parcel that is too well-tied, too well-packed, and that slowly, gradually, you undo all the folds and stretch yourself out exactly as one unfolds a piece of cloth or a sheet of paper and spreads it out flat, and you lie flat and make yourself very wide, as wide as possible, spreading yourself out as far as you can, opening yourself and stretching out in an attitude of complete passivity with what I could call "the face to the light": not curling back upon your difficulty, doubling up on it, shutting it in, so to say, into yourself, but, on the contrary, unfurling yourself as much as you can, as perfectly as you can, putting the difficulty before the Light—the Light which comes from above—if you do that in all the domains, and even if mentally you don't succeed in doing it—for it is sometimes difficult—if you can imagine yourself doing this physically, almost materially, well, when you have finished unfolding yourself and stretching yourself out, you will find that more than three-quarters of the difficulty is gone. And then just a little work of receptivity to the Light and the last quarter will disappear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/29-august-1956#p33</ref>
At the same time we get rid of the egoistic ignorance; for so long as we are at any point bound by that, the divine life must either be unattainable or imperfect in its self-expression. For the ego is a falsification of our true individuality by a limiting self-identification of it with this life, this mind, this body: it is a separation from other souls which shuts us up in our own individual experience and prevents us from living as the universal individual: it is a separation from God, our highest Self, who is the one Self in all existences and the divine Inhabitant within us. As our consciousness changes into the height and depth and wideness of the spirit, the ego can no longer survive there: it ==== By Doing Something Which is too small and feeble to subsist in that vastness and dissolves into it; Not for it exists by its limits and perishes by the loss of its limits.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). Out of the sevenfold ignorance towards the sevenfold knowledge. In The life divine II.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/out-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-sevenfold-knowledge#p16</ref>Oneself====
Absolved in the cosmic widenessI am going to set two conditions. To want to progress―that is really a moderate condition. To want to progress, released from egoto know that everything is yet to be done, his personality reduced everything is yet to be conquered. The second condition: to do something every day, some activity, some work, anything, something which is not for oneself, and above all something which is an expression of goodwill for all―you are a point group, aren't you?―simply to show that you do not live solely for yourselves as if you were at the centre of working the universe and the whole universe had to revolve around you. That is how it is for the vast majority of the universal Forcepeople, himself calmand they don't even know it. Each one should become aware that, liberatedspontaneously, deathless in universality, motionless in one puts oneself at the centre of the Witness Self even while outspread without limit in unending Space universe and Timewants everything to come to oneself, just like that, he can enjoy in one way or another. But one should make an effort to recognise the world the freedom existence of the Timelesswhole, that's all. It is to widen one's consciousness, just to become a little less tiny.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (1999). The master of the work. In The synthesis of yoga I.http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2313/theaspiration-master-of-the-worktalks#p24p53</ref>
So far as we really succeed in living for others, it is done by an inner spiritual force of love and sympathy; but the power and field of effectuality of this force in us are small, the psychic movement that prompts it is incomplete, its action often ignorant because there is contact of mind and heart but our being does not embrace the being of others as ourselves. An external unity with others must always be an outward joining and association of external lives with a minor inner result; the mind and heart attach their movements to this common life and the beings whom we meet there; but the common external life remains the foundation,—the inward constructed unity, or so much of it as can persist in spite of mutual ignorance and discordant egoisms, conflict of minds, conflict of hearts, conflict of vital temperaments, conflict of interests, is a partial and insecure superstructure. The spiritual consciousness, the spiritual life reverses this principle of building; it bases its action in the collective life upon an inner experience and inclusion of others in our own being, an inner sense and reality of oneness. The spiritual individual acts out of that sense of oneness which gives him immediate and direct perception of the demand of self on other self, the need of the life, the good, the work of love and sympathy that can truly be done. A realisation of spiritual unity, a dynamisation of the intimate consciousness of one-being, of one self in all beings, can alone found and govern by its truth the action of the divine life.<refcenter>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). The divine life. In The life divine II.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-divine-life#p17~</refcenter>
== A Tranquil ... kindness is an indispensable step towards the widening and Wide Equality ==illumination of the consciousness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/25-may-1934#p2</ref>
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.== Universalising Oneself ==<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). The gnostic being. In The life divine II.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p25</ref>
It '''What we discover within this secret part of ourselves is when there an inner being, a soul, an inner mind, an inner life, an inner subtle-physical entity which is this death much larger in its potentialities, more plastic, more powerful, more capable of a manifold knowledge and dynamism than our surface mind, life or body; especially, it is capable of a direct communication with the universal forces, movements, objects of desire the cosmos, a direct feeling and opening to them, a direct action on them and this calm equal wideness in even a widening of itself beyond the limits of the personal mind, the personal life, the consciousness everywherebody, so that it feels itself more and more a universal being no longer limited by the true existing walls of our too narrow mental, vital being within us comes out from , physical existence. This widening can extend itself to a complete entry into the consciousness of cosmic Mind, into unity with the veil and reveals its own calmuniversal Life, intense and potent presenceeven into a oneness with universal Matter.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (1999). The ascent of the sacrifice II. In The synthesis of yoga I.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2321/thesupermind-ascentmind-ofand-the-sacrificeovermind-iimaya#p25p5</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.<refcenter>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~</refcenter>
Those who The divine embraces are capable embraces of soul and of consciousness, and they can be reproduced among human beings only by a widening of extending the consciousness as wide as the world, become the world; but those who are shut up in their little bodies understanding and limited feelings stop at those limits; their bodies feelings—a widening that enables you to understand everything and their petty feelings are to them their whole selflove everything, without preference or exclusiveness.(The Mother, 5 May 1929)<ref>The Mother. (2002). 5 May 1929. In Questions and answers (1929-1931).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0316/526-maynovember-19291960#p16p3</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.<refcenter>The Mother. (2003). 20 March 1957. In Questions and answers (1957-1958).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/20-march-1957#p19~</refcenter>
Widen your As the individual has a consciousness of his own, so too there is a universal consciousness, a cosmic Being, a universal Mind, a universal Life, a universal physical conscious Nature. We are unaware of it because we are shut up in our outer physical selves. By the inner awakening and the opening above we become aware of this cosmic consciousness, cosmic Nature and cosmic Self and its movements; our consciousness can widen and your memory will increasebecome one with it.(The Mother, 16 September 1953)forces of universal Nature are always working on us without our knowing how they act or being able to get any general control over their action on us. By becoming conscious of the universal we are able to detect this working and control it.<ref>The Mother. (1998). 16 September 1953. In Questions and answers 1953.http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0528/16sachchidananda-existence-consciousness-force-septemberand-1953bliss#p27p23</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)<refcenter>The Mother. (2003). 10 February 1954. In Questions and answers 1954.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/10-february-1954#p10~</refcenter>
And when you enter into this consciousness where you see all things Develop the cosmic consciousness—let the egocentric outlook disappear in a single lookwideness, impersonality, the infinite multitude sense of relations between the cosmic Divine and men, you see how wonderful all that is, in all details. You can look at the history perception of mankind and see how much the Divine has evolved according to what men have understooduniversal forces, desired, hoped, dreamed and how He was materialist with the materialist realisation 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 understanding 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 cosmic manifestation of , the Divineplay.(The Mother, 1970)<ref>The Mother. (2013). Relations with others. In Words of the mother I.http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1330/relationsconditions-withof-otherstransformation#p94p10</ref>
== Transformation ==<center>~</center>
Wideness One has in his consciousness the feeling of rising above what is obscure and ordinary and calmness are unconscious, of raising himself—because usually our head is on top and our head is more conscious than the foundation rest of our body—and the Yogic impression that there is above him a greater consciousness and . So when one makes an effort to progress, at the best condition for inner growth and experiencesame time one makes an effort of ascent. If Sometimes one has even symbolically the impression of climbing a wide calm can be established in the physical consciousness, occupying mountain and filling wanting to reach the very body and all its cellssummit, that can become is, as close as possible to the basis for its transformation; in factfree expanses of the light, of what is purer. And if one doesn't take care, quite naturally, spontaneously, without this wideness and calmness one slips back into the transformation is hardly possibleordinary consciousness.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2013). Peace - the basis of the sadhana. In Letters on yoga II.http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2907/peace-the30-basis-of-themarch-sadhana1955#p18</ref>
But once this individualisation, that is, this awareness of the inner truth is complete, it becomes possible, by an inner identification, to re-establish in the multiplicity the original unity; that is the raison d'être of the universe as we perceive it. The universe has been made so that this phenomenon may take place. The Supreme has manifested Himself to Himself so as to become aware of Himself.(The Mother, 2 March 1951)<refcenter>The Mother. (2002). 3 March 1951. In Questions and answers (1950-1951).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/3-march-1951#p29~</refcenter>
'''''Yogic Level'''''The lightness, the feeling of the disappearance of the head and that all is open is a sign of the wideness of the mental consciousness which is no longer limited by the brain and its body sense—no longer imprisoned but wide and free. This is felt in the meditation only at first or with closed eyes, but at a later stage it becomes established and one feels always oneself a wide consciousness not limited by any feeling of the body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-universal-or-cosmic-consciousness#p35</ref>
== The Working of the Divine Shakti Why Universalise?==
The Shakti, the power of the Infinite and the Eternal descends within us, works, breaks up our present psychological formations, shatters every wall, widens, liberates, presents us with always newer and greater powers of vision, ideation, perception and newer and greater life-motives, enlarges and new-models increasingly the soul and its instruments, confronts us with every imperfection in order to convict and destroy it, opens to a greater perfection, does in a brief period the work of many lives or ages so that new births and new vistas open constantly within us. Expansive in her action, she frees the consciousness from confinement in the body; it can go out in trance or sleep or even waking and enter into worlds or other regions of this world and act there or carry back its experience. It spreads out, feeling the body only as a small part of itself, and begins to contain what before contained it; it achieves the cosmic consciousness and extends itself to be commensurate with the universe. It begins to know inwardly and directly and not merely by external observation and contact the forces at play in the world, feels their movement, distinguishes their functioning and can operate immediately upon them as the scientist operates upon physical forces, accept their action and results in our mind, life, body or reject them or modify, change, reshape, create immense new powers and movements in place of the old small functionings of the nature. We begin to perceive the working of the forces of universal Mind and to know how our thoughts are created by that working, separate from within the truth and falsehood of our perceptions, enlarge their field, extend and illumine their significance, become master of our own minds and active to shape the movements of Mind in the world around us. We begin to perceive the flow and surge of the universal life-forces, detect the origin and law of our feelings, emotions, sensations, passions, are free to accept, reject, new-create, open to wider, rise to higher planes of Life-Power. We begin to perceive too the key to the enigma of Matter, follow the interplay of Mind and Life and Consciousness upon it, discover more and more its instrumental and resultant function and detect ultimately the last secret of Matter as a form not merely of Energy but of involved and arrested or unstably fixed and restricted consciousness and begin to see too the possibility of its liberation and plasticity of response to higher Powers, its possibilities for the conscious and no longer the more than half-inconscient incarnation and self-expression of the Spirit. All this and more becomes more and more possible as the working of the Divine Shakti increases in us and, against much resistance or labour to respond of our obscure consciousness, through much struggle and movement of progress and regression and renewed progress necessitated by the work of intensive transformation of a half-inconscient into a conscious substance, moves to a greater purity, truth, height, range. All depends on the psychic awakening in us, the completeness of our response to her and our growing surrender.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (1999). The ascent of the sacrifice II. In The synthesis of yoga I.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-====To Get Rid of-the-sacrifice-ii#p29</ref>Egoistic Ignorance====
= How Can We ExpandAt the same time we get rid of the egoistic ignorance; for so long as we are at any point bound by that, the divine life must either be unattainable or imperfect in its self-expression. For the ego is a falsification of our true individuality by a limiting self-identification of it with this life, this mind, this body: it is a separation from other souls which shuts us up in our own individual experience and prevents us from living as the universal individual: it is a separation from God, our highest Self, who is the one Self in all existences and the divine Inhabitant within us. As our consciousness changes into the height and depth and wideness of the spirit, the ego can no longer survive there: it is too small and feeble to subsist in that vastness and dissolves into it; for it exists by its limits and perishes by the loss of its limits.<ref>http:/Widen Our Consciousness? =/incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/out-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-sevenfold-knowledge#p16</ref>
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Absolved in the cosmic wideness, released from ego, his personality reduced to a point of working of the universal Force, himself calm, liberated, deathless in universality, motionless in the Witness Self even while outspread without limit in unending Space and Time, he can enjoy in the world the freedom of the Timeless.
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'''''Yogic Level'''''Among human beings, the most widely spread disease is mental narrowness. They understand only what is in their own consciousness and cannot tolerate anything else.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/narrowness-and-one-sidedness#p10</ref>
== Raise Ourselves to Dwell on Higher and Wider Levels ==<center>~</center>
It These desires, these passions have no personality, there is evident that if we can live thus deeper within and put out steadily the inner forces into the outer instrumentation nothing in them or raise ourselves to dwell on higher and wider levels and bring their powers to bear on physical existence, not merely receive influences descending from them, which action that is all we can now do, there could begin a heightening of our force of conscious being so as peculiar to create a new principle of consciousness, a new range of activities, new values for all things, a widening of our consciousness and life, a taking up and transformation of you; they manifest in the lower grades same way in everyone. The obscure movements of our existence,—in brief, the whole evolutionary process by which the Spirit in Nature creates a higher type of being. Each step could mean a pacemind too, however distant from the goal, or a close approach leading to a larger doubts and more divine being, a larger errors and more divine force and consciousness, knowledge and will, sense of existence and delight in existence; there could be an initial unfolding towards difficulties that cloud the divine life. All religion, all occult knowledge, all supernormal (as opposed to abnormal) psychological experience, all Yoga, all psychic experience personality and discipline are sign-posts diminish its expansion and directions pointing us upon that road of progress of the occult self-unfolding spiritfulfilment.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). The evolutionary process - ascent and integration. In The life divine II.http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2203/the4-evolutionary-process-ascent-andaugust-integration1929#p25p5</ref>
== Union With the Divine in Works ==Develop Receptivity====
… we can have the union with the Divine We are at a decisive hour in works in its extreme wideness, if not yet on its most luminous heights; for we perceive no longer merely Nature or the modes history of Nature, but become conscious, in our physical movements, in our nervous and vital reactions, in our mental workings, of a Force greater than body, mind and life which takes hold of our limited instruments and drives all their motionthe earth. There It is no longer preparing for the sense coming of ourselves moving, thinking or feeling but of that moving, feeling the superman and thinking in us. This force that we feel is the universal Force because of this the Divine, which, veiled or unveiled, acting directly or permitting the use old way of life is losing its powers by beings in the cosmos, is the one Energy that alone exists and alone makes universal or individual action possiblevalue. For this force is We must strike out boldly on the Divine itself in path of the body of future despite its power; all is thatnew demands. The pettinesses once tolerable, power of act, power of thought and knowledge, power of mastery and enjoyment, power of loveare tolerable no longer. Conscious always and in everything, in We must widen ourselves and in others, of the Master of Works possessing, inhabiting, enjoying through this Force that to receive what is himself, becoming through it all existences and all happenings…going to come. <ref>Sri Aurobindo. (1999). The master of the work. In The synthesis of yoga I.http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2316/the-master-of29-thedecember-work1971#p17p1</ref>
There are two different things. One is the consciousness actually going out of the body—but that brings a deep sleep or trance. The other is the consciousness lifting itself out of the body and taking its stand outside it—above and spread round in wideness. That can be a condition of the Yogin in the waking state—he does not feel himself to be in the body but he feels the body to be in his wide free self, he is delivered from limitation in the body consciousness.<refcenter>Sri Aurobindo. (2014). Ascent to the higher planes. In Letters on yoga III.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/ascent-to-the-higher-planes#p27~</refcenter>
== Experiences on an Inner Plane ==Man, the individual, has to become and to live as a universal being; his limited mental consciousness has to widen to the superconscient unity in which each embraces all; his narrow heart has to learn the infinite embrace and replace its lusts and discords by universal love and his restricted vital being to become equal to the whole shock of the universe upon it and capable of universal delight; his very physical being has to know itself as no separate entity but as one with and sustaining in itself the whole flow of the indivisible Force that is all things; his whole nature has to reproduce in the individual the unity, the harmony, the oneness-in-all of the supreme Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/delight-of-existence-the-solution#p18</ref>
The spiritual experience does not even despise dreams and visions; it is known to it that many of these things are not dreams at all but experiences on an inner plane and if the experiences of the inner planes which lead to the opening of the inner self into the outer so as to influence and change it are not accepted, the experiences of the subtle consciousness and the trance consciousness, how is the waking consciousness to expand out of the narrow prison of the body and the body-mind and the senses? For, to the physical mind untouched by the inner awakened consciousness, even the experience of the cosmic consciousness or the Eternal Self might very well seem merely subjective and unconvincing. It would think, "Curious, no doubt, rather interesting, but very subjective, don't you think? Hallucinations, yes?" The first business of the spiritual seeker is to get away from the outward mind's outlook and to look at inward phenomena with an inward mind to which they soon become powerful and stimulating realities. If one does that, then one begins to see that there is here a wide field of truth and knowledge, in which one can move from discovery to discovery to reach the supreme discovery of all. But the outer physical mind, if it has any ideas about the Divine and spirituality at all, has only hasty a priori ideas miles away from the solid ground of inner truth and experience.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2014). The value of experiences. In Letters on yoga III.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-value-of-experiences#p15</ref>====Develop Equality ====
== Sacrifice In the spiritual ascent this power of Love ==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>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p25</ref>
<div> This pure wideness is brought into the intensity of the sacrifice of love when into all our activities there is poured the spirit and power of a divine infinite joy and the whole atmosphere of our life is suffused with an engrossing adoration of the One who is the All and the Highest. For then does the sacrifice of love attain its utter perfection when, offered to the divine All, it becomes integral, catholic and boundless, and when, uplifted to the Supreme, it ceases to be the weak, superficial and transient movement men call love and becomes a pure and grand and deep uniting Ananda.<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#p1</refcenter> ~</divcenter>
<div> As A larger psychic and emotional relation with individual, so with universal Love; all that widening of God and the self through sympathyworld, goodwillmore deep and plastic in its essence, universal benevolence more wide and beneficenceembracing in its movements, love more capable of mankind, love of creatures, taking up in its sweep the attraction whole of all the myriad forms and presences that surround uslife, by which mentally and emotionally man escapes from the first limits of his ego, has to be taken up into a unifying divine love for the universal Divineis 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-iii#p7p18</ref> </div>
<div> Knowing Him too in all beings, perceiving the glory and beauty and joy of the Beloved everywhere, we transform our souls into a passion of universal delight and a wideness and joy of universal love. <ref>Sri Aurobindo. (1999). Oneness. In The synthesis of yoga I. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/oneness#p10</refcenter> ~</divcenter>
== Surrender ==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>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/20-march-1957#p19</ref>
One starts by an intense idea and will to know or reach the Divine and surrenders more and more one's ordinary personal ideas, desires, attachments, urges to action or habits of action so that the Divine may take up everything. Surrender means that, to give up our little mind and its mental ideas and preferences into a divine Light and a greater knowledge, our petty personal troubled blind stumbling will into a great calm tranquil luminous Will and Force, our little restless tormented feelings into a wide intense divine Love and Ananda, our small suffering personality into the one Person of which it is an obscure outcome. If one insists on one's own ideas and reasonings, the greater Light and Knowledge cannot come or else is marred and obstructed in the coming at every step by a lower interference; if one insists on one's own desires and fancies, that great luminous Will and Force cannot act in its own true power—for you ask it to be the servant of your desires; if one refuses to give up one's petty ways of feeling, eternal Love and supreme Ananda cannot descend or is mixed and is spilt from the effervescing crude emotional vessel. No amount of ordinary reasoning can get rid of that necessity of surmounting the lower in order that the higher may be there.<refcenter>Sri Aurobindo. (2012). Science and yoga. In Letters on yoga I.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/science-and-yoga#p9~</refcenter>
True surrender enlarges And when you; it increases your capacity; it gives enter into this consciousness where you see all things in a greater measure in quality single look, the infinite multitude of relations between the Divine and men, you see how wonderful all that is, in quantity which you could not have had by yourselfall details. This new greater measure You can look at the history of quality mankind and quantity 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 different from anything you could attain before: you enter into another free to choose. The perfection of this endless variety of relations of man with God throughout the history of the world, into a wideness which you could not have entered if you did not surrenderis an ineffable marvel. It And all that together is as when a drop only one second of water falls into the sea; if it still kept there its separate identity, it would remain a little drop total manifestation of water and nothing more, a little drop crushed by all the immensity around, because it has not surrenderedDivine.(The Mother, 4 August 1929)<ref>The Mother. (2002). 4 august 1929. In Questions and answers (1929-1931).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0313/4relations-augustwith-1929others#p3p94</ref>
<div> Open with sincerity. That means to open integrally ==== Develop Peace and without reservation: not to give one part of you to the divine working Calmness and keep back the rest; not to make a partial offering and keep for yourself the other movements of your nature. All must be opened wide; it is insincerity to hold back any part of you or keep it shut to the Divine.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2013). Opening. In Letters on yoga II.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/opening#p15</ref> </div>Silence ====
== To Be Aware of One Being Everywhere ==But in order that it may go on developing, you must become more and more quiet, more and more able to hold whatever comes without getting too eager and excited. Peace and calmness are the first thing, and with it wideness—in the peace you can bear whatever love or Ananda comes, whatever strength comes or whatever knowledge.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-true-being-and-the-true-consciousness#p15</ref>
But the consciousness can also widen and begin to be first in direct contact with an immense range of things in the world, then to contain them as it were,—as it is said to see the world in oneself,—and to be in a way identified with it. To see all things in the self and the self in all things—to be aware of one being everywhere, aware directly of the different planes, their forces, their beings—that is universalisation.<refcenter>Sri Aurobindo. (2013). The universal or cosmic consciousness. In Letters on yoga III.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-universal-or-cosmic-consciousness#p24~</refcenter>
The starting-point It is to seek as though you were in yourself the midst of a big cyclone. It happens at times that which is independent of the body and the circumstances of life, which wind is not born of the mental formation so violent that you are not able to stand—you have been givento lie down and wait till it blows over. Now, the language divine forces are a thousand times stronger than a cyclonic wind. If you speak, the habits and customs of the environment do not have in which you livea very wide receptivity, the country where you are born or the age to which you belong. You must findan extremely solid basis of calmness, in the depths of your being, that which carries in it a sense equality of universalitysoul and inner peace, limitless expansion, unbroken continuity. Then they come and carry you decentralise, extend away like a gale and widen yourselfyou cannot resist them. It is the same thing with light; some people get a pain in the eyes when they look at the sun and are obliged to put on dark glasses because sunlight is too strong for them. But this is merely sunlight. When you begin are able to live in all things and in all beings; look at the barriers separating individuals from each other break down. You think in their thoughtssupramental light, vibrate it appears to you so brilliant that sunlight seems like a black stain in their sensations, feel in their feelings, live in the life of allcomparison. What seemed inert suddenly becomes full of lifeOne must have strong eyes and a solid brain to bear that, stones quickenone must be well prepared, plants feel and will and suffer, animals speak established in a language more or less inarticulate, but clear something extremely calm and expressive; everything vast—it is animated by as though one had such a marvellous consciousness without time or limit. And this is only one aspect strong basis of tranquillity that when the psychic realisation; there are othersstorm passes, many others. All help you to go beyond when the barriers of your egoismlight comes with a great intensity, the walls of your external personality, the impotence of your reactions one is able to remain immobile and the incapacity of your willreceive what one can without being knocked over.<ref>The Mother. (2003). Psychic education and spiritual education. In On education.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/12/psychic-education-and-spiritualfebruary-education1951#p4p5</ref>
... kindness is an indispensable step towards the widening and illumination of the consciousness.(The Mother, 25 May 1934)<refcenter>The Mother. (2003). Series one. In More answers from the mother.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/25-may-1934#p2~</refcenter>
== Aspiration ==It is by full entry into this wideness of the Self that cessation of mental activity becomes possible; one gets the inner Silence. After that this inner Silence can remain even when there is activity of any kind; the being remains silent within, the action goes on in the instruments and one receives all the necessary indications and execution of action whether mental, vital or physical from a higher source without the fundamental peace and calm of the Spirit being troubled.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-newness-of-the-integral-yoga#p5</ref>
But there must be enough aspiration and adhesion in the being to make the expansion of the being, the expansion of consciousness possible. For, to tell the truth, everybody is small, small, small, so small that there is not enough room to put any supramental in! It is so small that it is already quite filled up with all the ordinary little human movements. There must be a great widening to make room ====Condition for the movements of the Supermind.(The Mother, 27 June 1956)<ref>The Mother. (2003). 27 June 1956. In Questions and answers 1956.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/27-june-1956#p40</ref>Transformation====
== Find Your Psychic Wideness and Unite With It ==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, occupying and filling the very body and all its cells, that can become the basis for its transformation; in fact, without this wideness and calmness the transformation is hardly possible.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace-the-basis-of-the-sadhana#p18</ref>
Naturally, it is to widen and illumine your consciousness—but how to do it? Your own consciousness... to widen and illumine it. And if you could find, each one of you, your psychic and unite with it, all the problems would be solved.(The Mother, 8 February 1973)<refcenter>The Mother. (2003). 8 February 1973. In On education.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/8-february-1973#p2~</refcenter>
But once this individualisation, that is, this awareness of the inner truth is complete, it becomes possible, by an inner identification, to re-establish in the multiplicity the original unity; that is the raison d'être of the universe as we perceive it. The universe has been made so that this phenomenon may take place. The Supreme has manifested Himself to Himself so as to become aware of Himself.
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== Stress It is evident that if we can live thus deeper within and put out steadily the inner forces into the outer instrumentation or raise ourselves to dwell on higher and wider levels and bring their powers to bear on physical existence, not merely receive influences descending from them, which is all we can now do, there could begin a heightening of Consciousness ==our force of conscious being so as to create a new principle of consciousness, a new range of activities, new values for all things, a widening of our consciousness and life, a taking up and transformation of the lower grades of our existence,—in brief, the whole evolutionary process by which the Spirit in Nature creates a higher type of being. Each step could mean a pace, however distant from the goal, or a close approach leading to a larger and more divine being, a larger and more divine force and consciousness, knowledge and will, sense of existence and delight in existence; there could be an initial unfolding towards the divine life. All religion, all occult knowledge, all supernormal (as opposed to abnormal) psychological experience, all Yoga, all psychic experience and discipline are sign-posts and directions pointing us upon that road of progress of the occult self-unfolding spirit.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-evolutionary-process-ascent-and-integration#p25</ref>
It all depends upon where the consciousness places itself and centralises itself. If the consciousness places or associates itself within the ego, you are identified with the ego—if in the mind, it is identified with the mind and its activities and so on. If the consciousness puts its stress outside, it is said to live in the external being and becomes oblivious of its inner mind and vital and inmost psychic; if it goes inside, puts its centralising stress there, then it knows itself as the inner being or, still deeper, as the psychic being; if it ascends out of the body to the planes where self is naturally conscious of its wideness and freedom, it knows itself as the self and not the mind, life or body. It is this stress of consciousness that makes all the difference. That is why one has to concentrate the consciousness in heart or mind in order to go within or go above.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2012). Sachchidananda: Existence, consciousness, force and bliss. In Letters on yoga I.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/sachchidananda-existence-consciousness-force-and-bliss#p24</ref>''
== Be Like a Receiving and Transmitting Station How to Universalise? ==
But if people understood that one should be like a receiving ==== Find Your Psychic and transmitting station and that the wider the range (just the opposite of personal), the more impersonal, comprehensive and wide it is, the most force it can hold ("force" that is translated materially: notes and coins). This power to hold is proportional to the capacity to use the money in the best way―"best" in terms of the general progress: the widest vision, the greatest understanding and the most enlightened, exact and true usage, not according to the warped needs of the ego but according to the general need of the earth for its evolution and development. That is to say, the widest vision will have the largest capacity.(The Mother, 10 April 1968)<ref>The Mother. (2003). Early talks. In Words of the mother I.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/early-talks#p108</ref>Unite With It ====
= What Prevents Expansion Naturally, it is to widen and Wideningillumine your consciousness—but how to do it? =Your own consciousness... to widen and illumine it. And if you could find, each one of you, your psychic and unite with it, all the problems would be solved.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/8-february-1973#p2</ref>
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It all depends upon where the consciousness places itself and centralises itself. If mankind only caught a glimpse of what infinite enjoymentsthe consciousness places or associates itself within the ego, what perfect forces, what luminous reaches of spontaneous knowledge, what wide calms of our being lie waiting for us you are identified with the ego—if in the tracts which our animal evolution has not yet conqueredmind, they would leave all it is identified with the mind and its activities and never rest till they had gained these treasuresso on. But If the way consciousness puts its stress outside, it is narrowsaid to live in the external being and becomes oblivious of its inner mind and vital and inmost psychic; if it goes inside, puts its centralising stress there, then it knows itself as the doors are hard inner being or, still deeper, as the psychic being; if it ascends out of the body to force, the planes where self is naturally conscious of its wideness and fearfreedom, distrust it knows itself as the self and scepticism are therenot the mind, sentinels life or body. It is this stress of Nature, consciousness that makes all the difference. That is why one has to forbid concentrate the turning away of our feet from her ordinary pasturesconsciousness in heart or mind in order to go within or go above.<ref>The Mother. (2003). Aphorism - 5. In On thoughts and aphorisms.http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1028/aphorismsachchidananda-existence-consciousness-force-and-5bliss#p1p24</ref>
It is a factor in all human natures,—restless, desiring, eager, despondent, unstable. Stand back from it and do not allow it to govern or move you. There is a right part of the vital which must be used—ardent, sensitive to the higher things, capable of great love and devotion. Strengthen that and support it on the psychic and on the peace and wideness that comes from above.<refcenter>Sri Aurobindo. (2014). Wrong movements of the vital. In Letters on yoga IV.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/wrong-movements-of-the-vital#p54~</refcenter>
Among human beingsThe spiritual experience does not even despise dreams and visions; it is known to it that many of these things are not dreams at all but experiences on an inner plane and if the experiences of the inner planes which lead to the opening of the inner self into the outer so as to influence and change it are not accepted, the most widely spread disease experiences of the subtle consciousness and the trance consciousness, how is mental narrowness. They understand only what is in their own the waking consciousness to expand out of the narrow prison of the body and the body-mind and the senses? For, to the physical mind untouched by the inner awakened consciousness, even the experience of the cosmic consciousness or the Eternal Self might very well seem merely subjective and cannot tolerate anything elseunconvincing.(The MotherIt would think, "Curious, no doubt, rather interesting, but very subjective, don't you think? Hallucinations, 24 September 1953)<ref>yes?" The Motherfirst business of the spiritual seeker is to get away from the outward mind's outlook and to look at inward phenomena with an inward mind to which they soon become powerful and stimulating realities. (2003). Narrowness If one does that, then one begins to see that there is here a wide field of truth and knowledge, in which one-sidednesscan move from discovery to discovery to reach the supreme discovery of all. In Words But the outer physical mind, if it has any ideas about the Divine and spirituality at all, has only hasty a priori ideas miles away from the solid ground of the mother IIinner truth and experience.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1430/narrownessthe-andvalue-oneof-sidednessexperiences#p10p15</ref>
These desires, these passions have no personality, there is nothing in them or their action that is peculiar to you; they manifest in the same way in everyone. The obscure movements of the mind too, the doubts and errors and difficulties that cloud the personality and diminish its expansion and fulfilment,(The Mother, 4 August 1929)<refcenter>The Mother. (2002). 4 August 1929. In Questions and answers (1929-1931).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/4-august-1929#p5~</refcenter>
= How It is a factor in all human natures,—restless, desiring, eager, despondent, unstable. Stand back from it and do not allow it to Overcome govern or move you. There is a right part of the Barriers? =vital which must be used—ardent, sensitive to the higher things, capable of great love and devotion. Strengthen that and support it on the psychic and on the peace and wideness that comes from above.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/wrong-movements-of-the-vital#p54</ref>
They sense their limitation and think that in order to grow, increase and even survive, they need to take things from outside, for they live in the consciousness of their personal limitation. So, for them, what they give makes a hole and this hole must be filled up by receiving something!... Naturally, this is a mistake. And the truth is that if instead of being shut up in the narrow limits of their little person, they could so widen their consciousness as to be able not only to identify themselves with others in their narrow limits, but to come out of these limits, pass beyond, spread out everywhere, unite with the one Consciousness and become all things, then, at that moment the narrow limits will vanish, but not before. And as long as one senses the narrow limits, one wants to take, for one fears to lose. One spends and wants to replenish. It is due to that, my child. For if one were spread out in all things, if all the vibrations which come and go expressed the need to merge into everything, to widen oneself, grow, not by remaining within one's limits but coming out of them, and finally to be identified with everything, one would no longer have anything to lose for one would have everything.(The Mother, 19 August 1953)<ref>The Mother. (1998). 19 August 1953. In Questions and answers (1953).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/19-august-1953#p27</ref>==== Aspiration ====
But there must be enough aspiration and adhesion in the being to make the expansion of the being, the expansion of consciousness possible. For example, when you have a to tell the truth, everybody is small, small narrow vision of something and are hurt by others' vision and point of view, you must begin by shifting your consciousnesssmall, try so small that there is not enough room to put any supramental in! It is so small that it in others, and try gradually to identify yourself is already quite filled up with all the different ways ordinary little human movements. There must be a great widening to make room for the movements of thinking of all othersthe Supermind.(The Mother, 29 September 1954)<ref>The Mother. (2003). 29 September 1954. In Questions and answers (1954).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0608/2927-septemberjune-19541956#p37p40</ref>
''"What do you mean by these words: 'When you are in difficulty, widen yourself'?"''====Surrender====
I am speakingOne starts by an intense idea and will to know or reach the Divine and surrenders more and more one's ordinary personal ideas, desires, of courseattachments, urges to action or habits of difficulties on action so that the path of yogaDivine may take up everything. Surrender means that, incomprehensionto give up our little mind and its mental ideas and preferences into a divine Light and a greater knowledge, limitationsour petty personal troubled blind stumbling will into a great calm tranquil luminous Will and Force, things like obstaclesour little restless tormented feelings into a wide intense divine Love and Ananda, our small suffering personality into the one Person of which prevent it is an obscure outcome. If one insists on one's own ideas and reasonings, the greater Light and Knowledge cannot come or else is marred and obstructed in the coming at every step by a lower interference; if one insists on one's own desires and fancies, that great luminous Will and Force cannot act in its own true power—for you ask it to be the servant of your desires; if one refuses to give up one's petty ways of feeling, eternal Love and supreme Ananda cannot descend or is mixed and is spilt from advancingthe effervescing crude emotional vessel. And when I say "widen yourself", I mean widen your consciousnessNo amount of ordinary reasoning can get rid of that necessity of surmounting the lower in order that the higher may be there.(The Mother, 29 August 1956)<ref>The Mother. (2003). 29 August 1956. In Questions and answers (1956).http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0828/29science-augustand-1956yoga#p30p9</ref>
Easily we feel attracted towards people who bring a reinforcement to our nervous envelope; we are repelled by those who disturb or hurt it. Whatever gives it a sense of expansion and comfort and ease, whatever makes it respond with a feeling of happiness and pleasure exercises on us at once an attraction; when the effect is in the contrary sense, it responds with a protecting repulsion.(The Mother, 16 June 1929)<refcenter>The Mother. (2002). 16 June 1929. In Questions and answers(1929-1931).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p12~</refcenter>
You must widen True surrender enlarges you; it increases your consciousness capacity; it gives you a greater measure in quality and understand that everyone has his own lawin quantity which you could not have had by yourself. This new greater measure of quality and quantity is different from anything you could attain before: you enter into another world, into a wideness which you could not have entered if you did not surrender. It is necessary to find as when a drop of water falls into the ground sea; if it still kept there its separate identity, it would remain a little drop of understanding water and harmony in nothing more, a happy combination of individual wills and not to try that little drop crushed by all may be the same in an identical will and actionimmensity around, because it has not surrendered.(The Mother, January 1931)<ref>The Mother. (2003). Narrowness and one-sidedness. In Words of the mother II.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1403/narrowness-and4-oneaugust-sidedness1929#p2p3</ref>
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== Connecting You will notice then that the little black spot comes from the ego which is full of preferences; generally it does what it likes; the things it likes are called good and those it does not are called bad—this clouds your judgment. It is difficult to judge under these conditions. If you truly want to know, you must draw back a step and look, and you will know then that it is this small movement of the ego which is the cause of the uneasiness. You will see that it is a tiny thing curled back upon itself; you will have the impression of being in front of something hard which resists or is black. Then with patience, from the height of your consciousness, you must explain to this thing its mistake, and in the end it will disappear. I do not say that you will succeed all at once the very first day, but if you try sincerely, you will always end with success. And if you persevere, you will see that all of a sudden you are relieved of a mass of meanness and ugliness and obscurity which was preventing you from flowering in the light. It is those things which make you shrivel up, prevent you from widening yourself, opening out in a light where you have the impression of being very comfortable. If you make this effort, you will see finally that you are very far from the point where you had begun, the Vastness things you did not feel, did not understand, have become clear. If you are resolved, you are sure to succeed.<ref>http://incarnateword.in Nature ==/cwm/04/8-february-1951#p18</ref>
One stands upon a mountain ridge and glimpses or mentally feels a wideness, a pervasiveness, a nameless Vast in Nature; then suddenly there comes the touch, a revelation, a flooding, the mental loses itself in the spiritual, one bears the first invasion of the Infinite. Or you stand before a temple of Kali beside a sacred river and see what?—a sculpture, a gracious piece of architecture, but in a moment mysteriously, unexpectedly there is instead a Presence, a Power, a Face that looks into yours, an inner sight in you has regarded the World-Mother. Similar touches can come too through art, music, poetry to their creator or to one who feels the shock of the word, the hidden significance of a form, a message in the sound that carries more perhaps than was consciously meant by the composer.<refcenter>Sri Aurobindo. (2012). The intellect and yoga. In Letters on yoga I.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-intellect-and-yoga#p26~</refcenter>
I knew somebody who wanted <div> Open with sincerity. That means to widen his consciousness; he said he had found a way, it was open integrally and without reservation: not to lie flat on his back at night, out-give one part of-doors, you to the divine working and look at keep back the stars and try rest; not to identify himself with them, make a partial offering and go away deep into an immense world, and so lose completely all sense of proportion, of keep for yourself the order other movements of the earth and all its little things, and become vast as the sky—you couldn't say as vast as the universe, for we see only a tiny bit your nature. All must be opened wide; it is insincerity to hold back any part of you or keep it, but vast as shut to the sky with all the stars. And so, you know, the little impurities fall off for the time being, and one understands things on a very vast scale. It is a good exerciseDivine.(The Mother, 8 July 1953)<ref>The Mother. (1998). 8 July 1953. In Questions and answers (1953).http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0529/8-july-1953opening#p41p15</ref> </div>
From ====Union With the point of view of thought it is elementary, very easy. And even from the point of view of feelings, it is not difficult; for the heart, that is, the emotional being, to widen itself to the dimension of the Supreme is relatively easy. But the body! It is very difficult, very difficult without the body losing—how to put it?—it's centre of coagulation; without it dissolving into the surrounding mass. And even then, if one were in the midst of Nature with mountains, forests and rivers, and great natural beauty, plenty of space, it would be rather pleasant! But one cannot take a single step materially, out of one's body, without coming across things that are painful. It occasionally happens that one comes in contact with a substance that is pleasing, harmonious, warm, that vibrates with a higher light. But this is rare. Yes, flowers, sometimes flowers—sometimes, not always. But this material world, oh!... You get knocked everywhere—scratched, scratched, scraped, knocked by all kinds of things that won't unfold. Oh, how difficult it is! How little human life has blossomed! It is shrivelled up, hardened, without light, without warmth—to say nothing of joy.<ref>The Mother. (2003). Aphorism - 69. In On thoughts and aphorisms.http://incarnateword.Divine in/cwm/10/aphorism-69#p27</ref>Works ====
The easiest way is to identify yourself … we can have the union with something vast. For instance, when you feel that you are shut up the Divine in works in a completely narrow and limited thoughtits extreme wideness, willif not yet on its most luminous heights; for we perceive no longer merely Nature or the modes of Nature, consciousnessbut become conscious, when you feel as though you were in a shellour physical movements, then if you begin thinking about something very vastin our nervous and vital reactions, as for examplein our mental workings, the immensity of the waters of an oceana Force greater than body, mind and if really you can think life which takes hold of this ocean our limited instruments and how it stretches out fardrives all their motion. There is no longer the sense of ourselves moving, far, far, farthinking or feeling but of that moving, feeling and thinking in all directionsus. This force that we feel is the universal Force of the Divine, like this (Mother stretches out her arms)which, howveiled or unveiled, compared with youacting directly or permitting the use of its powers by beings in the cosmos, it is so far, so far the one Energy that you cannot see alone exists and alone makes universal or individual action possible. For this force is the other shore, you cannot reach its end anywhere, neither behind nor Divine itself in front nor to the right or left... it body of its power; all is widethat, widepower of act, widepower of thought and knowledge, wide... you think power of this mastery and then you feel that you are floating on this seaenjoyment, like thatpower of love. Conscious always and in everything, in ourselves and in others, of the Master of Works possessing, inhabiting, enjoying through this Force that there are no limits... This is very easy. Then you can widen your consciousness a little.(The Motherhimself, 29 September 1954)becoming through it all existences and all happenings…<ref>The Mother. (2003). 29 September 1954. In Questions and answers (1954).http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0623/29the-septembermaster-of-the-1954work#p35p17</ref>
== Do Many Different Things ==<center>~</center>
I say there There are two different things. One is the consciousness actually going out of the body—but that brings a great variety of subjects should be studieddeep sleep or trance. I believe that The other is it. For instance, if you are at school, to study all the subjects possible. If you are reading at home, not to read just one kind of thing, read all sorts consciousness lifting itself out of different things.And as for me, I was scolded all the time because I did many different things! And I was always told I would never be good at anything. I studied, I did painting, I did music, body and taking its stand outside it—above and besides was busy with other things stillspread round in wideness. And I was told my music wouldn’t That can be up a condition of the Yogin in the waking state—he does not feel himself to be in the body but he feels the body to much, my painting wouldn’t be worthwhilein his wide free self, and my studies would be quite incomplete. Probably it he is quite true, but still I have found that this had its advantages—those very advantages I am speaking about, of widening, making supple one’s mind and understandingdelivered from limitation in the body consciousness.(The Mother, 10 february 1954)<ref>The Mother. (2003). 10 february 1954. In Questions and answers (1954).http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0630/10ascent-to-the-februaryhigher-1954planes#p1p27</ref>
It is the same thing everywhere. Only those who have developed a little artistic taste, have travelled much and seen many things have widened their consciousness and they are no longer so sectarian.(The Mother, 21 October 1953)<ref>The Mother. (1998). 21 October 1953. In Questions and answers (1953).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/21-october-1953#p61</ref>====Love====
… this <div> This pure wideness is being continuously repeated to me: if anything is to be done properly, one must specialize. It brought into the intensity of the sacrifice of love when into all our activities there is poured the same thing for sports also. It is spirit and power of a divine infinite joy and the same for every thing in whole atmosphere of our life. It is said and repeated, and there are people suffused with an engrossing adoration of the One who will prove it: to do something well one must specialize. One must do that is the All and concentratethe Highest. If one wants to become a good philosopher, one must learn only philosophyFor then does the sacrifice of love attain its utter perfection when, if one wants offered to be a good chemistthe divine All, one must learn chemistry only. And if one wants to become a good tennis-playerit becomes integral, one must play only tennis. That's not what I thinkcatholic and boundless, that is all I can say. My experience is different. I believe there are general faculties and that it is much more important when, uplifted to acquire these than to specialise—unless, naturallythe Supreme, it ceases to be like M. the weak, superficial and transient movement men call love and Mme. Curie who wanted to develop becomes a certain science, find something new, then of course they were compelled to concentrate on that sciencepure and grand and deep uniting Ananda. But still that was only till they had discovered it; once they had found it, nothing stopped them from widening their mind.(The Mother,10 February 1954)<ref>The Mother. (2003). 10 February 1954. In Questions and answers (1954).http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0623/10the-ascent-of-the-februarysacrifice-1954ii#p4p1</ref> </div>
Naturally, as soon as races, species, nationalities intermix, it produces a mixture of egos. And then the horizon begins to widen. It is as when one tries to widen his mind, to understand many different things, study many languages, the knowledge of many countries and ages, one widens his ego very much, one begins to grow less narrow-minded. Naturally, with yoga one can overcome all this consciously.(The Mother, 12 January 1955)<refcenter>The Mother. (2003). 12 January 1955. In Questions and answers (1955).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/12-january-1955#p29~</refcenter>
It is like <div> As with individual, so with universal Love; all that widening of the people who cultivate their intelligenceself through sympathy, who learngoodwill, readuniversal benevolence and beneficence, thinklove of mankind, comparelove of creatures, study. These people's minds widen the attraction of all the myriad forms and they are much vaster and more understanding than those who live without mental educationpresences that surround us, with a few petty ideas by which sometimes are even contradictory in their consciousness mentally and govern them totally because these are emotionally man escapes from the only ones they have and they think these are unique ideas which should guide their life; these people are altogether narrow and limited whereas those who are trained and have studied—this at least widens their minds and they can seefirst limits of his ego, compare ideas and see that all possible ideas are there in the world and that it is a pettiness, an absurdity has to be attached to taken up into a limited number of ideas and consider them unifying divine love for the exclusive expression of truthuniversal Divine.(The Mother, 23 February 1955)<ref>The Mother. (2003). 23 February 1955. In Questions and answers (1955).http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0723/23the-ascent-of-the-februarysacrifice-1955ii#p6p7</ref> </div>
So, never come to me saying, "I am no good at this subject, I shall never understand philosophy" or "I shall never be able to do mathematics" or... It is ignorance, it is sheer ignorance. There is nothing you cannot understand if you give your brain the time to widen and perfect itself. And you can from one mental construction to another: this corresponds to studies; from one subject to another: and each subject of study means a language; from one language to another, and build up one thing after another within you, and contain all that and many more things yet, very harmoniously, if you do this with care and take your time over it. For each one of these branches of knowledge corresponds to an inner formation, and you can multiply these formations indefinitely if you give the necessary time and care.(The Mother,12 December 1956)<refcenter>The Mother. (2003). 12 December 1956. In Questions and answers (1956).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/12-december-1956#p15~</refcenter>
== Dealing with Pain ==<div> Knowing Him too in all beings, perceiving the glory and beauty and joy of the Beloved everywhere, we transform our souls into a passion of universal delight and a wideness and joy of universal love.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/oneness#p10</ref> </div>
… but if the pain continues and if it is indeed necessary to increase the receptivity in order to be able to receive what is helpful, what should be received, you must, after having relaxed this contraction, begin trying to widen yourself—you feel you are widening yourself. There are many methods. Some find it very useful to imagine they are floating on water with a plank under their back. Then they widen themselves, widen, until they become the vast liquid mass. Others make an effort to identify themselves with the sky and the stars, so they widen, widen themselves, identifying themselves more and more with the sky. Others again don't need these pictures; they can become conscious of their consciousness, enlarge their consciousness more and more until it becomes unlimited. One can enlarge it till it becomes vast as the earth and even the universe. When one does that one becomes really receptive.(The Mother, 31 March 1951)<ref>The Mother. (2002). 31 March 1951. In Questions and answers (1950-1951).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p18</ref>====Oneness====
== Relaxation ==But the consciousness can also widen and begin to be first in direct contact with an immense range of things in the world, then to contain them as it were,—as it is said to see the world in oneself,—and to be in a way identified with it. To see all things in the self and the self in all things—to be aware of one being everywhere, aware directly of the different planes, their forces, their beings—that is universalisation.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-universal-or-cosmic-consciousness#p24</ref>
For instance, you are reading something and come across a thought you don't understand—it is beyond you, you understand nothing and so in your head it lies like a brick, and if you try to understand, it becomes more and more like a brick, a stiffening, and if you persist it gives you a headache. There is but one thing to do: not to struggle with the words, remain just like this (gesture, stretched out, immobile), create a relaxation, simply widen, widen. And don't try to understand, above all, don't try to understand—let it enter like that, quite gently, and relax, relax, and in this relaxing your headache goes away. You no longer think of anything, you wait for a few days and after some days you see from inside: "Oh! How clear it is! I understand what I had not understood." It is as easy as that. When you read a book which is beyond you, when you come across sentences which you cannot understand—one feels that there is no correspondence in the head—well, you must do this; one reads the thing once, twice, thrice, then remains calm and makes the mind silent. A fortnight later, one takes up the same passage again and it is clear as daylight.(The Mother, 31 March 1951)<refcenter>The Mother. (2002). 31 March 1951. In Questions and answers (1950-1951).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p19~</refcenter>
== Intellectual Ways The starting-point is to seek in yourself that which is independent of Widening ==the body and the circumstances of life, which is not born of the mental formation that you have been given, the language you speak, the habits and customs of the environment in which you live, the country where you are born or the age to which you belong. You must find, in the depths of your being, that which carries in it a sense of universality, limitless expansion, unbroken continuity. Then you decentralise, extend and widen yourself; you begin to live in all things and in all beings; the barriers separating individuals from each other break down. You think in their thoughts, vibrate in their sensations, feel in their feelings, live in the life of all. What seemed inert suddenly becomes full of life, stones quicken, plants feel and will and suffer, animals speak in a language more or less inarticulate, but clear and expressive; everything is animated by a marvellous consciousness without time or limit. And this is only one aspect of the psychic realisation; there are others, many others. All help you to go beyond the barriers of your egoism, the walls of your external personality, the impotence of your reactions and the incapacity of your will.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/psychic-education-and-spiritual-education#p4</ref>
There are lots of intellectual ways of widening ====Connecting with the consciousness. These I have explained fully Vastness in my book. But in any case, when you are bored by something, when something is painful to you or very unpleasant, if you begin to think of the eternity of time and the immensity of space, if you think of all that has gone before and all that will come afterwards, and that this second in eternity is truly just a passing breath, and that it seems so utterly ridiculous to be upset by something which in the eternity of time is... one doesn't even have the time to become aware of it, it has no place, no importance, because, what indeed is a second in eternity? If one can manage to realise that, to... how to put it?... visualise, picture the little person one is, in the little earth where one is, and the tiny second of consciousness which for the moment is hurting you or is unpleasant for you, just this—which in itself is only a second in your existence, and that you yourself have been many things before and will be many more things afterwards, that what affects you now you will have probably completely forgotten in ten years, or if you remember it you will say, "How did I happen to attach any importance to that?"... if you can realise that first and then realise your little person which is a second in eternity, not even a second, you know, imperceptible, a fragment of a second in eternity, that the whole world has unrolled before this and will unroll yet, indefinitely—before, behind—and that... well, then suddenly you see the utter ridiculousness of the importance you attach to what happened to you... Truly you feel... to what an extent it is absurd to attach any importance to one's life, to oneself, and to what happen to you. And in the space of three minutes, if you do this properly, all unpleasantness is swept away. Even a very deep pain can be swept away. Simply a concentration like this, and to place oneself in infinity and eternity. Everything goes away. One comes out of it cleansed. One can get rid of all attachments and even, I say, of the deepest sorrows—of everything, in this way—if one knows how to do it in the right way. It immediately takes you out of your little ego. There we are.(The Mother, 29 September 1954)<ref>The Mother. (2003). 29 September 1954. In Questions and answers (1954).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/29-september-1954#p38</ref>Nature====
''How One stands upon a mountain ridge and glimpses or mentally feels a wideness, a pervasiveness, a nameless Vast in Nature; then suddenly there comes the touch, a revelation, a flooding, the mental loses itself in the spiritual, one bears the first invasion of the Infinite. Or you stand before a temple of Kali beside a sacred river and see what?—a sculpture, a gracious piece of architecture, but in a moment mysteriously, unexpectedly there is it instead a Presence, a Power, a Face that we lose looks into yours, an inner sight in you has regarded the World-Mother. Similar touches can come too through art, music, poetry to their creator or to one who feels the shock of the word, the hidden significance of a chance to widen our knowledge form, a message in the sound that carries more perhaps than was consciously meant by prevailing the composer.<ref>http://incarnateword.in a debate?''/cwsa/28/the-intellect-and-yoga#p26</ref>
If you prevail in a debate, it means that your opinion has prevailed over the opinion of another, not necessarily because yours was truer than his, but because you were better at wielding the arguments or because you were a more stubborn debater. And you come out of the discussion convinced that you are right in what you assert; and so you lose a chance to see a view of the question other than your own and to add an aspect of the truth to the one or the ones you already possess. You remain imprisoned in your own thought and refuse to widen it.(The Mother, 17 March 1961)<refcenter>The Mother. (2003). Aphorism - 56. In On thoughts and aphorisms.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-56#p11~</refcenter>
For instance, you are with someone. This person tells you somethingI knew somebody who wanted to widen his consciousness; he said he had found a way, you tell him the contrary (as it usually happenswas to lie flat on his back at night, simply through a spirit out-of contradiction) -doors, and look at the stars and you begin arguing. Naturallytry to identify himself with them, you will never come to any pointand go away deep into an immense world, except a quarrel if you are ill-natured. But instead and so lose completely all sense of doing thatproportion, instead of remaining shut up in your own ideas or your own words, if you tell yourself: "Wait a the order of the earth and all its littlethings, I am going to try and see why he said that to me. Yes, why did he tell me that?" And you concentrate: "Why, why, why?" You stand there, just like that, trying. The other person continues speaking, doesnbecome vast as the sky—you couldn't he?—and is very happy toosay as vast as the universe, for you don't contradict him any longer! He talks profusely and is sure he has convinced you. Then you concentrate more and more on what he is sayingwe see only a tiny bit of it, and but vast as the sky with all the feeling that gradually, through his words, you are entering his mindstars. When you enter his head, suddenly you enter into his way of thinking, and next, just imagine, you understand why he is speaking to you thus! And thenso, if you have a fairly swift intelligence and put what you have just come to understand alongside what you had known beforeknow, you have the two ways togetherlittle impurities fall off for the time being, and so can find the truth reconciling bothone understands things on a very vast scale. And here you have truly made progress. And this It is the best way of widening one's thoughta good exercise.(The Mother, 12 August 1953)<ref>The Mother. (1998). 12 August 1953. In Questions and answers (1953).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/128-augustjuly-1953#p11p41</ref>
== Unfolding Yourself ==<center>~</center>
But if, when you have to face anguish, suffering, revolt, pain or a feeling From the point of view of helplessness—whatever thought it may beis elementary, all very easy. And even from the things that come to you on point of view of feelings, it is not difficult; for the path and which precisely are your difficulties—if physicallyheart, that is to say, in your body-consciousnessthe emotional being, you can have to widen itself to the feeling dimension of widening yourselfthe Supreme is relatively easy. But the body! It is very difficult, one could say very difficult without the body losing—how to put it?—it's centre of unfolding yourself—you feel as coagulation; without it were all folded updissolving into the surrounding mass. And even then, if one fold on another like a piece were in the midst of cloth which is folded Nature with mountains, forests and refolded rivers, and folded again—so if you have this feeling that what is holding and strangling you and making you suffer or paralysing your movementgreat natural beauty, plenty of space, is like it would be rather pleasant! But one cannot take a too closelysingle step materially, too tightly folded piece out of cloth or like a parcel one's body, without coming across things that is too well-tied, too well-packed, and are painful. It occasionally happens that slowly, gradually, you undo all the folds and stretch yourself out exactly as one unfolds comes in contact with a piece of cloth or a sheet of paper and spreads it out flatsubstance that is pleasing, and you lie flat and make yourself very wideharmonious, as wide as possiblewarm, spreading yourself out as far as you can, opening yourself and stretching out in an attitude of complete passivity that vibrates with what I could call "the face to the a higher light": not curling back upon your difficulty. But this is rare. Yes, doubling up on itflowers, shutting it insometimes flowers—sometimes, so to saynot always. But this material world, into yourselfoh!... You get knocked everywhere—scratched, butscratched, on the contraryscraped, unfurling yourself as much as you can, as perfectly as you can, putting the difficulty before the Light—the Light which comes from above—if you do knocked by all kinds of things that in all the domains, and even if mentally you donwon't succeed in doing it—for unfold. Oh, how difficult it is sometimes difficult—if you can imagine yourself doing this physically! How little human life has blossomed! It is shrivelled up, almost materiallyhardened, wellwithout light, when you have finished unfolding yourself and stretching yourself out, you will find that more than three-quarters without warmth—to say nothing of the difficulty is gonejoy. And then just [Based on Aphorism 69—Sin and virtue are a little work game of receptivity resistance we play with God in His efforts to the Light and the last quarter will disappeardraw us towards perfection.(The Mother, 29 August 1956)sense of virtue helps us to cherish our sins in secret.]<ref>The Mother. (2003). 29 August 1956. In Questions and answers (1956).httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0810/29-augustaphorism-195669#p33p25</ref>
== Opening Out in a Light ==<center>~</center>
You will notice then that the little black spot comes from the ego which is full of preferences; generally it does what it likes; … but if the things it likes are called good pain continues and those if it does not are called bad—this clouds your judgment. It is difficult indeed necessary to judge under these conditions. If you truly want increase the receptivity in order to be able to knowreceive what is helpful, what should be received, you must draw back a step and look, and after having relaxed this contraction, begin trying to widen yourself—you feel you will know then that it is this small movement of the ego which is the cause of the uneasinessare widening yourself. There are many methods. You will see that Some find it is very useful to imagine they are floating on water with a tiny thing curled plank under their back upon itself; you will have the impression of being in front of something hard which resists or is black. Then with patiencethey widen themselves, widen, from until they become the height of your consciousness, you must explain vast liquid mass. Others make an effort to this thing its mistake, identify themselves with the sky and in the end it will disappear. I do not say that you will succeed all at once the very first daystars, but if you try sincerelyso they widen, you will always end with success. And if you perseverewiden themselves, you will see that all of a sudden you are relieved of a mass of meanness identifying themselves more and ugliness and obscurity which was preventing you from flowering in more with the lightsky. It is those things which make you shrivel upOthers again don't need these pictures; they can become conscious of their consciousness, prevent you from widening yourself, opening out in a light where you have the impression of being very comfortableenlarge their consciousness more and more until it becomes unlimited. If you make this effort, you will see finally that you are very far from One can enlarge it till it becomes vast as the point where you had begun, earth and even the things you did not feel, did not understand, have become clearuniverse. If you are resolved, you are sure to succeedWhen one does that one becomes really receptive.(The Mother, 8 February 1951)<ref>The Mother. (2002). 8 February 1951. In Questions and answers (1950-1951).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/831-februarymarch-1951#p18</ref>
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I am going to set two conditions. To want to progress―that is really a moderate condition. To want to progress, to know that everything is yet to be done, everything is yet to be conquered. The second condition: to do something every day, some activity, some work, anything, something which is not for oneselfDear reader, and above all something which is an expression of goodwill for all―you are a group, aren't you?―simply to show that you do not live solely for yourselves as if you were at notice any error in the centre of paragraph numbers in the universe and the whole universe had to revolve around you. That is how it is for the vast majority of peoplehyperlinks, and they don't even please let us know it. Each one should become aware that, spontaneously, one puts oneself by dropping an email at the centre of the universe and wants everything to come to oneself, just like that, in one way or anotherintegral. But one should make an effort to recognise the existence of the whole, that's alledu. It is to widen one's consciousness, just to become a little less tinyin@gmail.com(The Mother, 24 March 1970)<ref>The Mother. (2003). Aspiration talks. In Words of the mother II.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/aspiration-talks#p53</ref>|}
<div>As the earth that heaves and opens, as the tree that grows, as the flower that blossoms, as the bird that sings, as the man that loves, let His light permeate you and radiate in an ever-increasing and widening happiness, a happiness steadily moving onward as the stars move in heaven. <ref>The Mother. (2003). Soar high. In Words of the mother III.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/soar-high#p10</ref></div>==References==
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