== Silence ==
A silence, an entry into a wide or even immense or infinite emptiness is part of the inner spiritual experience; of this silence and void the physical mind has a certain fear, the small superficially active thinking or vital mind a shrinking from it or dislike,—for it confuses the silence with mental and vital incapacity and the void with cessation or non-existence: but this silence is the silence of the spirit which is the condition of a greater knowledge, power and bliss, and this emptiness is the emptying of the cup of our natural being, a liberation of it from its turbid contents so that it may be filled with the wine of God; it is the passage not into non-existence but to a greater existence.
<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). The divine life. In The life divine II.
http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-divine-life#p16</ref>
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>Sri Aurobindo. (2013). The newness of the integral yoga. In Letters on yoga II.
http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-newness-of-the-integral-yoga#p5</ref>
== The Working of the Divine Shakti ==