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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Practise silence of mind, it gives power of understanding.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-mind#p85</ref></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Wait quietly for the exact indication; all mental intervention and decisions are arbitrary. The clear indication comes in the silence of the mind.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-mind#p89</ref></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is only in mental silence that you can hear the voice without distorting it—be very peaceful.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-mind#p92</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparentWait quietly for the exact indication;color:#000000;">It is all mental intervention and decisions are arbitrary. The clear indication comes in quietness, peace and the silence that of the spiritual forces actmind.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/quietthe-mind#p26p89</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">A respectful and modest It is only in mental silence is that you can hear the only attitude befitting a disciplevoice without distorting it—be very peaceful. </spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/controlthe-of-speechmind#p39 http:p92<//incarnateword.in/cwm/14/control-of-speech#p39]ref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">They [small Buddhist sects</span><span style="background-color:#f5f5f5;color:#333333;">}</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">sit down for a few hours It is in the day and even at night and quiet their mind. This is for them the key to all realisation—a quiet mind that knows how to keep quiet for hours together without roving. You must not believe however that it is a very easy thing to doquietness, but they have no other object. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">They do not concentrate upon any thought, they do not try to understand better, to know more, nothing of the kind; for them the only way is to have a quiet mind peace and sometimes they pass through years and years of effort before they arrive at this result—to silence the mind, to keep it absolutely silent and still</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"><nowiki>; for, as it is said here in the Dhammapada, if the mind is unbalanced, then this constant movement of ideas following one another, sometimes without any order, ideas contradicting and opposing each other, ideas that speculate on things, all that jostles about in the head, makes holes in the roof, as it were. So through these holes all undesirable movements enter into the consciousness, as water enters into a house with a leaky roofspiritual forces act.</nowiki></span> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0314/conjugate-versesquiet#p87p26</ref>

A respectful and modest silence is the only attitude befitting a disciple. <div style="colorref> http:#000000;">This work of mental purification should be done very regularly //incarnateword.in order to secure a complete /cwm/14/control over one’s actions.-of-speech#p39</divref>

<div style="margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm;"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">For this purpose, it is good to </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">set apart some time every They (small Buddhist sects) sit down for a few hours in the day when one can quietly go over one's thoughts and put one's synthesis in order</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">even at night and quiet their mind. Once the habit This is acquired, you can maintain control over your thoughts even during work and action, allowing only those which are useful for what you are doing them the key to come all realisation—a quiet mind that knows how to the surfacekeep quiet for hours together without roving. ParticularlyYou must not believe however that it is a very easy thing to do, if you but they have continued no other object. They do not concentrate upon any thought, they do not try to cultivate the power of concentration and attentionunderstand better, only the thoughts that are needed will be allowed to enter know more, nothing of the active external consciousness </span><span style="background-color:transparentkind;color:#000000;">for them the only way is to have a quiet mind and sometimes they then become all pass through years and years of effort before they arrive at this result—to silence the more dynamic mind, to keep it absolutely silent and effective. And ifstill ; for, as it is said here in the intensity Dhammapada, if the mind is unbalanced, then this constant movement of concentrationideas following one another, it becomes necessary not to think at allsometimes without any order, ideas contradicting and opposing each other, ideas that speculate on things, all mental vibration can be stilled and an almost total silence secured. In this silence one can gradually open to that jostles about in the higher regions of head, makes holes in the mind and learn to record roof, as it were. So through these holes all undesirable movements enter into the inspirations that come from thereconsciousness, as water enters into a house with a leaky roof.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/mental-education#p19 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1203/mentalconjugate-educationverses#p19]p87</divref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">There is an active method by which one looks to see where the thoughts come from and finds they come not from oneself, but from outside the head as it were; if one can detect them coming, then, before they enter, they have to be thrown away altogether. This is perhaps the most difficult way and not all can do it, but if it can work of mental purification should be done it is the shortest and most powerful road very regularly in order to silencesecure a complete control over one’s actions.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/concentration-and-meditation#p24</ref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It For this purpose, it is quite certain that good to create absolute silence is of all things the most difficult, for many things of which set apart some time every day when one can quietly go over one was not aware, become enormous! There were all kinds of suggestion, movements, 's thoughts, formations which went on as though automatically and put one's synthesis in order. Once the outer consciousnesshabit is acquired, almost outside the consciousness, on the frontiers of consciousness; you can maintain control over your thoughts even during work and as soon as one wants to be absolutely silentaction, one becomes aware of all these things allowing only those which go on moving, moving, moving and make a lot of noise and prevent are useful for what you from being silent. That is why it is better are doing to come to remain very quiet, very calm and at the same time </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">very attentive to something which is above you and to which you aspiresurface. Particularly,</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and if there is this kind of noise passing like that around you (Mother moves her hands around her head), not have continued to pay cultivate the power of concentration and attention, not only the thoughts that are needed will be allowed to look, not to heed it. If there are thoughts which go round enter the active external consciousness and round they then become all the more dynamic and round like this (gestures), which come and go, do not look, do not pay attentioneffective. And if, but concentrate upwards in a great aspiration which one may even formulate—because often it helps the concentration—towards the light, the peace, the quietude, towards a kind intensity of inner impassivenessconcentration, so that the concentration may be strong enough for you it becomes necessary not to attend to think at all that continues to whirl about , all aroundmental vibration can be stilled and an almost total silence secured. But if suddenly you say, "Ah, there's some noise! Oh, here is a thought!", then it is finished. You will never succeed in being quiet. Have you never seen those people who try In this silence one can gradually open to the higher regions of the mind and learn to stop a quarrel by shouting still louder than record the ones who are quarrelling? Well, it is something like inspirations thatcome from there. (</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">''Mother laughs''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">.)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0612/8-septembermental-1954education#p32p19</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Not to be disturbed There is an active method by either joy or grief, pleasure or displeasure by what people say or do or by any outward things is called in Yoga a state of samata, equality to all things.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is of immense importance in sadhana to be able which one looks to reach this state. It helps see where the mental quietude thoughts come from and silence finds they come not from oneself, but from outside the head as well as the vital it were; if one can detect them coming, then, before they enter, they have to comebe thrown away altogether. It means indeed that This is perhaps the vital itself most difficult way and not all can do it, but if it can be done it is the vital mind are already falling silent shortest and becoming quiet. The thinking mind is sure most powerful road to followsilence.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3129/interactions-with-othersconcentration-and-the-practice-of-yogameditation#p100p24</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent It is quite certain that to create absolute silence is of all things the most difficult, for many things of which one was not aware, become enormous! There were all kinds of suggestion, movements, thoughts, formations which went on as though automatically in the outer consciousness, almost outside the consciousness, on the frontiers of consciousness;color:#000000;">First conditionand as soon as one wants to be absolutely silent, one becomes aware of all these things which go on moving, moving, know how to keep moving and make a lot of noise and prevent you from being silent. And not only keep your tongue That is why it is better to remain very quiet, but silence </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">your mind, keep very calm and at the head silent. If same time very attentive to something which is above you wish and to have a true, sincere experience upon which you can buildaspire, and if there is this kind of noise passing like that around you must know how (Mother moves her hands around her head), not to be silentpay attention, not to look, not to heed it. If there are thoughts which go round and round and round like this (gestures), which come and go, do not look, do not pay attention, otherwise you have nothing but what concentrate upwards in a great aspiration which one may even formulate—because often it helps the concentration—towards the light, the peace, the quietude, towards a kind of inner impassiveness, so that the concentration may be strong enough for you fabricate yourself, which is equivalent not to attend to all that continues to zerowhirl about all around. All that one can But if suddenly you say is, "HeavensAh, what there's some noise! Oh, here is a fashioner my mind isthought!" , then it is finished. You will never succeed in being quiet. Have you never seen those people who try to stop a quarrel by shouting still louder than the ones who are quarrelling? Well, it is something like that. (The ''Mother, 19 March 1951laughs'')</span> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0406/198-marchseptember-19511954#p34p32</ref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">To remain Not to be disturbed by either joy or grief, pleasure or displeasure by what people say or do or by any outward things is called in silence as much as possible is good for Yoga a timestate of samata, equality to all things. But entire retirement It is seldom found of immense importance in sadhana to be helpful—the lower movements may remain quiescent owing able to reach this state. It helps the mental quietude and silence as well as the vital to want of stimulus from outside, but do not disappearcome. For It means indeed that you must be able to </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">get an inner quietude the vital itself and a mastery over the outer movements </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">which will resist any atmospherevital mind are already falling silent and becoming quiet. The thinking mind is sure to follow.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speechinteractions-with-others-and-the-practice-of-yoga#p74p100</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The difficulty is that the things in the atmosphere come in even if one does First condition, know how to keep silent. And not speak with people. There are always only keep your tongue quiet, but silence your mind waves moving about, keep the head silent. It is If you wish to have a mastery that has true, sincere experience upon which you can build, you must know how to be developedsilent, beginning with a power of silenceotherwise you have nothing but what you fabricate yourself, exclusionwhich is equivalent to zero. All that one can say is, non-response.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;Heavens, what a fashioner my mind is!">(The Mother, 19 March 1951) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3104/speech19-andmarch-yoga1951#p75p34</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The mind must learn to be silent—remain calm, attentive, without making a noise. If you try to To remain in silence your mind directly, it as much as possible is a hard job, almost impossible; good for the most material part of the mind never stops its activity—it goes on and on like a non-stop recording machinetime. It repeats all that it records and unless there But entire retirement is a switch seldom found to be helpful—the lower movements may remain quiescent owing to stop itwant of stimulus from outside, it continues and continues indefinitelybut do not disappear. If, on the other hand, For that you manage must be able to get an inner quietude and a mastery over the outer movements which will resist any atmosphere. </spanref><span style="background-colorhttp:transparent;color:#000000;">shift your consciousness into a higher domain</span><span style="background/incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-color:transparent;color:yoga#000000;">, above the ordinary mind, this opening to the Light calms the mind, it does not stir any longer, and the mental silence 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.p74</spanref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Motherdifficulty is that the things in the atmosphere come in even if one does not speak with people. There are always mind waves moving about. It is a mastery that has to be developed, beginning with a power of silence, exclusion, 8 March 1951)</span><span style="backgroundnon-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;">response. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0431/8speech-marchand-1951yoga#p4p75</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> The mind must learn to be silent—remain calm, attentive, without making a noise. If you try to silence in your mind directly, it is a hard job, almost impossible; for the most material part of the head mind never stops its activity—it goes on and heart and the emptiness are both necessary</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="backgroundon like a non-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and desirablestop recording machine. When they are there, the consciousness finds them natural and they give It repeats all that it the sense of lightness records and release; that unless there is why the thoughts or speech of the old kind are foreign a switch to stop it, it continues and when they come give fatiguecontinues indefinitely. This silence and emptiness must growIf, so that on the other hand, you manage to shift your consciousness into a higher consciousness with its knowledgedomain , lightabove the ordinary mind, Anandathis opening to the Light calms the mind, peace can come down in it does not stir any longer, and progressively replace the old thingsmental silence so obtained can become constant. They must indeed occupy not only head and heart but the whole bodyOnce you enter into this domain, you may very well never come out of it—the external mind always remains calm.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;">(The Mother, 8 March 1951) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3004/experiences-of-the-self-the8-onemarch-and-the-infinite1951#p25p4</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">This pure stillness of The silence in the mind is indeed always the required condition, head and heart and the desideratum, but for bringing it about there emptiness are more ways than oneboth necessary and desirable. It is notWhen they are there, for instance, only by an effort of the mind itself to get clear of all intrusive emotion or passion, to quiet its own characteristic vibrations, to resist consciousness finds them natural and they give it the obscuring fumes sense of a physical inertia which brings about a sleep or a torpor of the mind instead of its wakeful silence, lightness and release; that the thing can be </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">done. This is indeed an ordinary process of the Yogic path of knowledge; but why the same end can be brought about thoughts or automatically happen by other processes—for instance, by the descent from above speech of a great spiritual stillness imposing silence on the mind and heart, on the life stimuli, on the physical reflexes. A sudden descent of this old kind or a series of descents accumulative in force are foreign to it and efficacy is a well-known phenomenon of spiritual experiencewhen they come give fatigue. Or again one may start a mental process of one kind or another for the purpose which would normally mean a long labour This silence and yet may pull down or be seized midwayemptiness must grow, or even at the outset, by an overmind influx, a rapid intervention or manifestation of so that the higher Silenceconsciousness with its knowledge, with an effect suddenlight, instantaneousAnanda, out of all proportion to peace can come down in it and progressively replace the means used at the beginningold things. One commences with a method, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">They must indeed occupy not only head and heart but the work is taken up by a Grace from above, by a response from That to which one aspires </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">or by an irruption of the infinitudes of the Spirit. It was in this last way that I myself came by the mind's absolute silence, unimaginable to me before I had the actual experiencewhole body.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2830/philosophicalexperiences-of-the-self-the-thoughtone-and-yogathe-infinite#p19p25</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Ah! First </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">you must will This pure stillness of the mind is indeed always the required condition, the desideratum, but for bringing itabout there are more ways than one. It is not,</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and then you must sayfor instance, as only by an effort of the mind itself to people who make a lot get clear of noiseall intrusive emotion or passion, "Keep to quietits own characteristic vibrations, be quietto resist the obscuring fumes of a physical inertia which brings about a sleep or a torpor of the mind instead of its wakeful silence, that the thing can be quiet!" done. This is indeed an ordinary process of the Yogic path of knowledge; you must do this when but the same end can be brought about or automatically happen by other processes—for instance, by the descent from above of a great spiritual stillness imposing silence on the mind comes along with all its suggestions and all its movements. You must tranquillise itheart, pacify iton the life stimuli, make it silenton the physical reflexes. The first thing A sudden descent of this kind or a series of descents accumulative in force and efficacy is not to listen to ita well-known phenomenon of spiritual experience. Most Or again one may start a mental process of one kind or another for the timepurpose which would normally mean a long labour and yet may pull down or be seized midway, as soon as all these comeor even at the outset, all these thoughtsby an overmind influx, one looksa rapid intervention or manifestation of the higher Silence, seeks to understandwith an effect sudden, one listens; then naturally that imbecile believes that you are very much interested: it increases its activity. You must not listeninstantaneous, must not pay attentionout of all proportion to the means used at the beginning. If it makes too much noiseOne commences with a method, you must tell it: "Be still! Now then but the work is taken up by a Grace from above, silence, keep quiet!" without making by a lot response from That to which one aspires or by an irruption of the infinitudes of noise yourselfthe Spirit. It was in this last way that I myself came by the mind's absolute silence, you understand? You must not imitate those people who begin shoutingunimaginable to me before I had the actual experience. <ref>http: "Keep quiet", //incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/philosophical-thought-and make such a noise themselves that they are even noisier than the others!-yoga#p19</spanref>

<span style= Ah! First you must will it, and then you must say, as to people who make a lot of noise, "Keep quiet, be quiet, be quiet!"background-color; you must do this when the mind comes along with all its suggestions and all its movements. You must tranquillise it, pacify it, make it silent. The first thing is not to listen to it. Most of the time, as soon as all these come, all these thoughts, one looks, seeks to understand, one listens; then naturally that imbecile believes that you are very much interested: it increases its activity. You must not listen, must not pay attention. If it makes too much noise, you must tell it:transparent;color"Be still! Now then, silence, keep quiet!" without making a lot of noise yourself, you understand? You must not imitate those people who begin shouting:#000000;">Keep quiet", and make such a noise themselves that they are even noisier than the others! (The Mother, 19 May 1954)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/19-may-1954#p45</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> At first whenever I fell back into sin, I used to weep and rage against myself and against God for having suffered it. Afterwards it was as much as I could dare to ask, "Why hast thou rolled me again in the mud, O my playfellow?" Then even that came to my mind to seem too bold and presumptuous; I could only get up in silence, look at him out of the corner of my eyes—and clean myself.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-462-463#p3</ref></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">  The cure is not in trying to wake up the mind but in turning it, immobile and silent, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">upward towards the region of intuitive light, in a steady and quiet aspiration, and to wait in silence, for the light to come down </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> and flood your brain which will, little by little, wake up to this influence and become capable of receiving and expressing the intuition.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/study#p88</ref></span>