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<div style="color:#000000;">What the sadhaka has to do is to be careful to reject and hush these outsiders, so that during the meditation at least the peace and quietude of the mind and vital may be complete. This can be done best if you keep a strong and silent will. </div>
 
 
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/silence#p15</ref>
 
=== E12: Entering a Higher Domain ===
 
 
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If you try to silence your mind directly, it is a hard job, almost impossible; for the most material part of the mind never stops its activity—it goes on and on like a non-stop recording machine. It repeats all that it records and unless there is a switch to stop it, it continues and continues indefinitely. If, on the other hand, you manage to shift your consciousness into a higher domain, above the ordinary mind, this opening to the Light calms the mind, it does not stir any longer, and the </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''mental'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''silence'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">so obtained can become constant. Once you enter into this domain, you may very well never come out of it—the external mind always remains calm.</span>
 
 
<div style="color:#000000;">(Sri Aurobindo, 8th March 1951)</div>
 
 
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/8-march-1951#p4</ref>
 
<div style="color:#000000;">If you want a more swift and visible progress, it can only be by bringing your psychic to the front through a constant self-offering. Aspire intensely, but without impatience.</div>
 
 
<div style="color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p22</ref></div>
=== E13: Being spontaneous ===
 
 
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">And if one carries this a little further, one should never think and plan beforehand what one ought to say or write. One should simply be able to silence one's mind, to turn it like a receptacle towards the higher Consciousness and express as it receives it, in </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''mental'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''silence'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">, what comes from above. That would be true spontaneity.</span>
 
 
<div style="color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/29-august-1956#p7</ref></div>
=== E14: Reading ===
 
 
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Take one of Sri Aurobindo's books. Read a sentence or two. Then remain silent and concentrated to understand the deeper meaning. Try to concentrate deeply enough to obtain </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''mental'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''silence'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and begin again daily until you obtain a result.</span>
 
<div style="color:#0066cc;"><ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/study-of-works-of-sri-aurobindo-and-the-mother#p29</u></ref></div>
 
<div style="color:#000000;">There is a world of ideas without form and it is there that you must enter if you want to seize what is behind the words. So long as you have to draw your understanding from the forms of words, you are likely to fall into much confusion about the true sense; but if in a silence of your mind you can rise into the world from which ideas descend to take form, at once the real understanding comes. If you are to be sure of understanding one another, you must be able to understand in silence. There is a condition in which your minds are so well attuned and harmonised together that one perceives the thought of the other without any necessity of words. But if there is not this attunement, there will always be some deformation of your meaning, because to what you speak the other mind supplies its own significance. I use a word in a certain sense or shade of its sense; you are accustomed to put into it another sense or shade. Then, evidently, you will understand, not my exact meaning in it, but what the word means to you. This is true not of speech only, but of reading also. If you want to understand a book with a deep teaching in it, you must be able to read it in the mind's silence; you must wait and let the expression go deep inside you into the region where words are no more and from there come slowly back to your exterior consciousness and its surface understanding. But if you let the words jump at your external mind and try to adapt and adjust the two, you will have entirely missed their real sense and power. There can be no perfect understanding unless you are in union with the unexpressed mind that is behind the centre of expression.</div>
 
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/26-may-1929#p21</ref>
=== E15: Witness Without Involvement ===
 
 
<div style="color:#000000;">What is the meaning of “the mental witness”?</div>
 
<div style="color:#000000;">The witness we have spoken about several times already, only here it is in the mind.</div>
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