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→Why Rejection?
...the power to say "No" is indispensable in life and still more so in sadhana.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p79</ref>
<center>~</center>The effort demanded of the sadhak is that of aspiration, rejection and surrender. If these three are done, the rest is to come of itself by the grace of the Mother and the working of her force in you.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/resistances-sufferings-and-falls#p28</ref> <center>~</center>
The personal effort required is a triple labour of aspiration, rejection and surrender,—
an aspiration vigilant, constant, unceasing—the mind’s will, the heart’s seeking, the assent of the vital being, the will to open and make plastic the physical consciousness and nature;rejection of the movements of the lower nature—rejection of the mind’s ideas, opinions, preferences, habits, constructions, so that the true knowledge may find free room in a silent mind,—rejection of the vital nature’s desires, demands, cravings, sensations, passions, selfishness, pride, arrogance, lust, greed, jealousy, envy, hostility to the Truth, so that the true power and joy may pour from above into a calm, large, strong and consecrated vital being,—rejection of the physical nature’s stupidity, doubt, disbelief, obscurity, obstinacy, pettiness, laziness, unwillingness to change, tamas, so that the true stability of Light, Power, Ananda may establish itself in a body growing always more divine;surrender of oneself and all one is and has and every plane of the consciousness and every movement to the Divine and the Shakti.
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mother-ii</ref>
<center>~</center>The sadhana of this Yoga does not proceed through any set mental teaching or prescribed forms of meditation, mantras or others, but by aspiration, by a self-concentration inwards or upwards, by self-opening to an Influence, to the Divine Power above us and its workings, to the Divine Presence in the heart, and by the rejection of all that is foreign to these things. It is only by faith, aspiration and surrender that this self-opening can come.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-aim-of-the-integral-yoga#p3</ref><center>~</center>In the first movement of self-preparation, the period of personal effort, the method we have to use is this concentration of the whole being on the Divine that it seeks and, as its corollary, this constant rejection, throwing out, katharsis, of all that is not the true Truth of the Divine.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/self-consecration#p26</ref><center>~</center>
There is a period, more or less prolonged, of internal effort and struggle in which the individual will has to reject the darkness and distortions of the lower nature and to put itself resolutely or vehemently on the side of the divine Light.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-four-aids#p15</ref>
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In our Yoga we begin with the idea, the will, the aspiration of the complete surrender; but at the same time we have to reject the lower nature, deliver our consciousness from it, deliver the self involved in the lower nature by the self rising to freedom in the higher nature. If we do not do this double movement, we are in danger of making a tamasic and therefore unreal surrender, making no effort, no tapas and therefore no progress; or else we may make a rajasic surrender not to the Divine but to some self-made false idea or image of the Divine which masks our rajasic ego or something still worse.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-yoga-of-the-bhagavad-gita#p5</ref>
==Transformation==
"The transformation must be integral, and integral therefore the rejection of all that withstands it."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/26-april-1951#p16</ref><center>~</center>
If we truly want to progress and acquire the capacity of knowing the truth of our being, that is to say, what we are truly created for, what we can call our mission upon earth, then we must, in a very regular and constant manner, reject from us or eliminate in us whatever contradicts the truth of our existence, whatever is opposed to it. In this way, little by little, all the parts, all the elements of our being can be organised into a homogeneous whole around our psychic centre...
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-science-of-living#p5</ref>
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An evolution of gnostic consciousness brings with it a transformation of our world-consciousness and world-action: for it takes up into the new power of awareness not only the inner existence but our outer being and our world-being; there is a remaking of both, an integration of them in the sense and power of the spiritual existence. There must come upon us in the change at once a reversal and rejection of our present way of existence and a fulfilment of its inner trend and tendency.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p14</ref>
<center>~</center>The spirit within can always change and perfect the working of its nature. But the mental being must open the way by a clear and a watchful introspection, an opening of itself to a searching and subtle self-knowledge which will give it the understanding and to an increasing extent the mastery of its natural instruments, a vigilant and insistent will of self-modification and self-transformation—for to that will the Prakriti must with whatever difficulty and whatever initial or prolonged resistance eventually respond,—and an unfailing practice which will constantly reject all defect and perversion and replace it by right state and a right and enhanced working. Askesis, tapasya, patience and faithfulness and rectitude of knowledge and will are the things required until a greater Power than our mental selves directly intervenes to effect a more easy and rapid transformation.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-power-of-the-instruments#p14</ref> <center>~</center>All interference from below that would falsify the truth of the superior action must first be inhibited or rendered impotent, and it must be done by our own free choice. A continual and always repeated refusal of the impulsions and falsehoods of the lower nature is asked from us and an insistent support to the Truth as it grows in our parts; for the progressive settling into our nature and final perfection of the incoming informing Light, Purity and Power needs for its development and sustenance our free acceptance of it and our stubborn rejection of all that is contrary to it, inferior or incompatible.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/self-consecration#p25</ref><center>~</center>
It is not enough to have a positive movement, there must also be the negative movement of rejection. For you cannot attain a stable transformation as long as you harbour in your being elements which oppose it. If you keep obscurities within you, they may for a time remain silent and immobile, so well that you attach no importance to them, and one day they will wake up again and your transformation won't be able to resist them. Not only is the positive movement of self-giving necessary but also the negative movement of rejection of everything in you that opposes this giving. You must not leave things "like that", buried somewhere, in such a way that at the first opportunity they wake up and undo all your work. There are parts of the being which know very well how to do this, there are elements of the vital which are extraordinary from this point of view: they keep quiet, hide in a corner, remain so absolutely silent and motionless that you think they don't exist; so you are no longer on your guard, you are satisfied with your transformation and your surrender, you think everything is going well, and then, suddenly, one fine day, without warning, the thing jumps up like a jack-in-the-box and makes you commit all the stupidities in the world. And it is the stronger for having remained repressed—repressed and closed tight in a corner—it has remained as though buried so as not to draw your attention, it has kept very, very quiet, and the moment you are not expecting it, it springs up and you tell yourself, "Oh! What was the good of all my transformation?" That thing was there, and so it happened. It is just like that, these things remain there and hide themselves so well, that if you do not go looking for them with a well-lit lantern, you will not know they are there till the day they come out and demolish all your work in one minute.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/26-april-1951#p18</ref>
<center>~</center>The seeker discovers in his experience the two poles of existence of One Being and the two lines or currents of their energy negative and positive in relation to each other which effect by their simultaneity the manifestation of all that is within it. Here too he finds that the separative aspect is liberative; for it releases him from the bondage of identification with the inadequate workings of Nature in the Ignorance. The unitive aspect is dynamic and effective; for it enables him to arrive at mastery and perfection; while rejecting what is less divine or seemingly undivine in her, he can rebuild her forms and movements in himself according to a nobler pattern and the law and rhythm of a greater existence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-sacrifice-the-triune-path-and-the-lord-of-the-sacrifice#p25</ref>
==Evolution==
If something seems ugly to us, it is simply because He no longer wants it to exist. He is preparing the world so that this thing may no longer be manifested, so that the manifestation can move from that state to something else. So naturally, within us, we violently repulse everything that is about to go out of the active manifestation—there is a movement of rejection.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-63-64-65#p13</ref> <center>~</center>
...it is above all the progressive Force of evolution that gives us the will to reject.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-50#p6</ref>
Divine, a relation of bhakti, love, reliance, self-giving, rejection of the insistences of the separating and self-asserting mental, vital and physical ego.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-emergence-or-coming-forward-of-the-psychic#p20</ref>
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If desire is rejected and no longer governs the thought, feeling or action and there is the steady aspiration of an entirely sincere self-giving, the psychic usually after a time opens of itself. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-psychic-opening#p9</ref>
==Protect From Outside Forces==
You must not accept everything; you should reject all suggestions of uncontrolled desire or anger. You must not allow any wrong force to get hold of your body and use it. It is not safe to accept these things and you should be very careful to reject them always. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/anger-and-violence#p39</ref>
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...everything comes from outside, from universal Nature. But the individual is not bound to accept everything that comes; he can accept and he can reject.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/rejection#p6</ref>
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This state which tries to come upon you and seize is not part of your true self, but a foreign influence. To yield to it and to express it would therefore be not sincerity, but the expression of something false to your true being, something that will grow more and more foreign to you as you progress. Always reject it, when it comes, even if you feel strongly its touch; open in your mind and soul to the Mother, keep your will and faith and you will find it receding.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/dealing-with-hostile-attacks#p22</ref>
<center>~</center>
The fact that the anger comes with such force is itself enough to show that it is not in you that it is, but that it comes from outside. It is a rush of force from the universal Nature that tries to take possession of the individual being and make that being act according to the will of this outside force and not according to the will of the soul within. These things come in the course of the sadhana because the sadhak is liberating himself from the lower nature and trying to turn towards the Mother and live in her divine consciousness and the higher nature. The forces of the lower nature do not want that and so they make these rushes in order to recover their rule. It is necessary when that comes to remain quiet within remembering the Mother or calling her and reject the anger or whatever else comes, whenever it comes or however often it comes. If that is done, then these forces begin to lose their power to invade.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/anger-and-violence#p20</ref>
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For you are always under the illusion that pain belongs to you. This is not true. Pain is something thrust upon you. The same event could occur, exactly the same in all its details, without its inflicting the shadow of a pain on you; on the contrary, sometimes it can fill you with ecstatic joy. And it is exactly the same thing. But in one case, you are open to the adverse forces you want to reject from yourself, and in the other you are not, you are already too far away from them to be affected by them any longer; and so, instead of feeling the negative side they represent, you feel only the positive side the Divine represents in the experience...
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/7-march-1956#p29</ref>
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...all these obscure and useless vital movements that torment you, these wrong thoughts, suggestions, confusions, inabilities etc...you thought they must be kept and changed...precisely what you have got to do is to "shut them out", to reject, refuse to keep them, refuse to have them. It is precisely to see in another way, to see in the true way, that the Force is pressing on you. It would indeed be a great blessing if you could forget these other wrong things altogether. Again, why do you want to keep and change the "wrong things" as you yourself call them? If you have an illness, do you want to keep and change the pains, the sickness and all the rest of it? It is to throw out the illness that you want, for the body to forget it, not to keep any impression of it, to lose even the possibility of having it again, to live and feel in quite another way, the way of health. It is just the same here.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/wrong-movements-of-the-vital#p65</ref>
===Control over Thoughts===
The peace and the equality are there above you, you have to call them down into the mind and the vital and the body. And whenever something disturbs you have to reject the thing that disturbs and the disturbance.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/rejection#p9</ref>
<center>~</center>It is not possible to establish a deep silence all at once unless you can separate yourself from the thoughts, feel them as coming from outside and reject them before they enter. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/silence#p3<center>~</center>
If you reject the restlessness of the vital always, the whole being will be at peace and being at peace receive the divine Ananda.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/wrong-movements-of-the-vital#p19</ref>
<center>~</center>
A certain emptying of the consciousness of old things is necessary before anything positive can settle itself. It is what is happening in your physical consciousness, the old movements are being emptied out and you fall quiet, but they press in again and the cup has to be repeatedly emptied. If there is a firm and persistent rejection, then this repeated return of these old movements will cease to be so persistent; the periods of quiet and its intensity will increase until the peace and quietude can be established and permanent. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/emptiness-voidness-blankness-and-silence#p12</ref>
==Equality (Samata)==
Complete samata takes long to establish and it is dependent on three things—the soul's self-giving to the Divine by an inner surrender, the descent of the spiritual calm and peace from above and the steady, long and persistent rejection of all egoistic, rajasic and other feelings that contradict samata.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/equality-the-chief-support#p9</ref>
==Ananda/Delight==
One must learn to discern what is desire and refrain from doing anything that may satisfy one's desires. One must reject them without trying to satisfy them...there is an infinitely greater delight in conquering and eliminating a desire than in satisfying it.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/23-january-1957#p11</ref>
<center>~</center>
The psychic Ananda and the desires of the complaining and clamouring vital cannot go together; if desire comes up, the Ananda is obliged to draw back—unless you reject the desire in time and refuse to make any compromise with it. Especially when the Mother was giving you wideness and peace and intense Ananda, it was irrational in the extreme to give room to an external desire and sacrifice all that for its sake.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/desire#p7</ref>
=How to Reject?=