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=What is Rejection?=
...each thought, each feeling, each sensation, each impulse, each reaction, as it manifests, must be presented in the consciousness to the central being or its aspiration. What is in accord is accepted; what is not in accord is refused, rejected or transformed.
Thought-control, rejection of undesirable thoughts, to become able to think only what one wants and when one wants.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/mental-education#p7</ref>
 
==In the Vital==
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/rejection#p4</ref>
=When do we stop Do We Stop Rejecting?=
When all the being lives in the solid realisation of calm, peace, liberation, oneness, then the desires fall away and the necessity of rejection ceases, because there is nothing to reject any longer.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-veda-and-the-upanishads#p20</ref>
 
=Common Errors=
It is dangerous to think of giving up "all barrier of discrimination and defence against what is trying to descend" upon you. Have you thought what this would mean if what is descending is something not in consonance with the divine Truth, perhaps even adverse? An adverse Power could ask no better condition for getting control over the seeker. It is only the Mother's Force and the divine Truth that one should admit without barriers. And even there one must keep the power of discernment in order to detect anything false that comes masquerading as the Mother's Force and the divine Truth, and keep too the power of rejection that will throw away all mixture.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p57</ref>
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A condition of perfect samata can be established in which one sees all as equal, friends and enemies included, and is not disturbed by what men do or by what happens. The question is whether this is all that is demanded from us. If so, then the general attitude will be one of a neutral indifference to everything. But the Gita, which strongly insists on a perfect and absolute samata, goes on to say, "Fight, destroy the adversary, conquer."...there is a work to be done, a Truth to be established against which immense forces are arranged, invisible forces which use visible things and persons and actions for their instruments. If one is among the disciples, the seekers of this Truth, one has to take sides for the Truth, to stand against the Forces that attack it and seek to stifle it. ..."Have samata," he [Krishna] said, "and seeing clearly the Truth, fight." Therefore to take sides with the Truth and to refuse to concede anything to the Falsehood that attacks, to be unflinchingly loyal and against the hostiles and the attackers, is not inconsistent with equality. It is personal and egoistic feeling that has to be thrown away; hatred and vital ill-will have to be rejected...
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/equality-the-chief-support#p11</ref>
 
==Passive Surrender==
Tamasic surrender is when one says, "I won't do anything; let Mother do everything. Aspiration, rejection, surrender even are not necessary. Let her do all that in me."
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/resistances-sufferings-and-falls#p28</ref>
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Active surrender is when you associate your will with the Divine Will, reject what is not the Divine, assent to what is the Divine. Passive surrender is when everything is left entirely to the Divine—that few can really do, because in practice it turns out that you surrender to the lower nature under pretext of surrendering to the Divine.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/surrender#p62</ref>
 
==Accepting Ugliness of the Lower Nature==
==Focusing Too Much on the Negative==
From every point of view it is bad to concentrate on what one doesn't want, on what one has to reject, what one refuses to be, for the very fact that the thought is there gives to things one wants to reject a sort of right of existence within oneself. This explains the considerable importance of not letting destructive suggestions, thoughts of ill-will, hatred, destruction enter; for merely to think of them is already to give them a power of realisation.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/19-december-1956#p12</ref>
==Avoiding Contact With People==
Sadhak: ''How can I avoid being attacked by these wild and hostile ideas?''
The Mother: You must learn to reject them when they come.
''Not to come into contact with the people who carry them?''
That is impossible—there would be too many people to avoid.
''But the point is to know who is carrying them?''
That is impossible by any outer method; it is only by acquiring an inner discrimination that these things can be known.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/15-may-1934#p2</ref>
 
==Repulsion, Dislike, Hatred==
In the God-nature to which we have to rise there can be an adamantine, even a destructive severity but not hatred, a divine irony but not scorn, a calm, clear-seeing and forceful rejection but not repulsion and dislike. Even what we have to destroy, we must not abhor or fail to recognise as a disguised and temporary movement of the Eternal.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/equality-and-the-annihilation-of-ego#p4</ref> 
==Renunciation==
There is in books a lot of talk about renunciation—that you must renounce possessions, renounce attachments, renounce desires. But I have come to the conclusion that so long as you have to renounce anything you are not on this path; for, so long as you are not thoroughly disgusted with things as they are, and have to make an effort to reject them, you are not ready for the supramental realisation. If the constructions of the Overmind—the world which it has built and the existing order which it supports—still satisfy you, you cannot hope to partake of that realisation. Only when you find such a world disgusting, unbearable and unacceptable, are you fit for the change of consciousness. That is why I do not give any importance to the idea of renunciation. To renounce means that you are to give up what you value, that you have to discard what you think is worth keeping. What, on the contrary, you must feel is that this world is ugly, stupid, brutal and full of intolerable suffering; and once you feel in this way, all the physical, all the material consciousness which does not want it to be that, will want it to change, crying, “I will have something else—something that is true, beautiful, full of delight and knowledge and consciousness!”<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/renunciation#p1</ref> 
==Indulgence==
The free expression of a passion may relieve the vital for a time, but at the same time it gives it a right to return always. It is not reduced at all. Suppression with inner indulgence in subtle forms is not a cure, but expression in outer indulgence is still less a cure. It is perfectly possible to go on without manifestation if one is resolute to arrive at a complete control, the control being not a mere suppression but an inner and outer rejection.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/desire#p62</ref>
The free expression of a passion may relieve the vital for a time, but at the same time it gives it a right to return always. It is not reduced at all. Suppression with inner indulgence in subtle forms is not a cure, but expression in outer indulgence is still less a cure. It is perfectly possible to go on without manifestation if one is resolute to arrive at a complete control, the control being not a mere suppression but an inner and outer rejection. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/desire#p62</ref><center>~</center>[The sex] hunger like other hungers does not cease by temporary satiation; it renews itself after a temporary abeyance and wants again indulgence. Neither sops nor gorgings are the right treatment for it. It can only go by a radical psychic rejection or a full spiritual opening with the increasing descent of a consciousness that does not want it and has a truer Ananda.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p41</ref>
==Physically Rejecting Things to Overcome Attachment==
About the attachment to things, the physical rejection of them is not the best way to get rid of it. Accept what is given you, ask for what is needed and think no more of it—attaching no importance, using them when you have, not troubled if you have not. That is the best way of getting rid of the attachment.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/desire#p14</ref>
 
==Absolutely Rejecting All Things That Can Satisfy Desire==
To overcome the Ignorance, to delete the ego, a total rejection not only of desire but of all the things that can satisfy desire may intervene as a valid principle. But this standard or any mental standard cannot be absolute nor can it be binding as a law on the consciousness that has arisen above desire; a complete purity and self-mastery would be in the very grain of its nature and that would remain the same in poverty or in riches: for if it could be shaken or sullied by either, it would not be real or would not be complete.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-divine-life#p53</ref> 
==Rejecting Nature==
To arrive then at the whole truth of our self and Spirit and the knowledge, greatness, bliss of our free and complete being must be the object of the purification, liberation and perfection of the buddhi. But it is a common idea that this means not the full possession of Nature by the Purusha, but a rejection of Nature.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-intelligence-and-will#p7</ref>
 
==Rejecting Reason Too Soon==
Usually people who have a tendency for not altogether ordinary experiences find reason very troublesome; and even before being ready to surpass its action they reject it, and that is how usually they become absolutely unreasonable and end up by being half-mad. That is why, so long as you don't have an absolute certainty of having reached where you want to go, well, you must keep the reason very active in yourself in order to prevent yourself from becoming derailed...One cannot dethrone reason unless the experience of the higher regions is so absolute, so true, so complete, that it compels recognition.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/25-may-1955#p46</ref>
 
==Rejecting the Vital==
You speak of rejecting the lower vital, but it is only the unregenerated lower vital movements that can be got rid of; you cannot get rid of the lower vital itself, for it is a necessary part of the manifested nature, like the higher vital or the mind. It has to be changed in the power of the higher consciousness, not left to itself or dropped from you.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/wrong-movements-of-the-vital#p62</ref><center>~</center>
...if we do not wish to starve our vital, sensations must not be rejected or diminished in number and intensity. Neither should we avoid them; rather we must make use of them with wisdom and discernment. Sensations are an excellent instrument of knowledge and education, but to make them serve these ends, they must not be used egoistically for the sake of enjoyment, in a blind and ignorant search for pleasure and self-satisfaction.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-four-austerities-and-the-four-liberations#p27</ref>
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...if one wants to reject love in its lower form, that is to say, human love as human beings experience it, if one makes an inner effort to reject it, one usually rejects the entire capacity of feeling love and becomes like a stone. And then sometimes one has to wait for years or centuries before there is a reawakening in oneself of the capacity to receive and manifest love.
Therefore, the best way when love comes, in whatever form it may be, is to try and pierce through its outer appearance and find the divine principle which is behind and which gives it existence. Naturally, it is full of snares and difficulties, but it is more effective. That is to say, instead of ceasing to love because one loves wrongly, one must cease to love wrongly and want to love well.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/19-september-1956#p25</ref>
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Replace vairagya by a firm and quiet rejection of what has to be rejected, sex, vanity, ego-centrism, attachment, etc. etc.; but that does not include rejection of the activities and powers that can be made instruments of the sadhana and the divine work, such as art, music, poetry etc.—Yoga can be done without the rejection of life, without killing or impairing the life-joy and the vital force.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/asceticism-and-the-integral-yoga#p28</ref>
 
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