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<div style="text-align:center;"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Transformation of Shadow</span></div>
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<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ag9Cr_8Wfi6LWaA67EIqNJVeLxM-7wrYEWz8-FqPqqE14_VKqtggtmP8LZxrpysm2Fn8DS81CRLGiMY3pIiiPYU/edit#heading=h.7rnxkkwq2vr6 Equanimity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ag9Cr_8Wfi6LWaA67EIqNJVeLxM-7wrYEWz8-FqPqqE/edit#heading=h.7rnxkkwq2vr6 ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ag9Cr_8Wfi6LWaA67EIqNJVeLxM-7wrYEWz8-FqPqqE/edit#heading=h.7rnxkkwq2vr6 12z4t86uydac3o Silent Listening]</div>
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ag9Cr_8Wfi6LWaA67EIqNJVeLxM-7wrYEWz8-FqPqqE14_VKqtggtmP8LZxrpysm2Fn8DS81CRLGiMY3pIiiPYU/edit#heading=h.iqd2eo40tjks Challenges Faced During the Process][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ag9Cr_8Wfi6LWaA67EIqNJVeLxM-7wrYEWz8-FqPqqE/edit#heading=h.iqd2eo40tjks ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ag9Cr_8Wfi6LWaA67EIqNJVeLxM-7wrYEWz8-FqPqqE/edit#heading=h.iqd2eo40tjks 128ywjtysqegsz Disturbance of Silence]
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<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/14_VKqtggtmP8LZxrpysm2Fn8DS81CRLGiMY3pIiiPYU/edit#heading=h.s69blcpjnaml Silent Aspiration]</div>
<div style= What is Shadow? "margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/14_VKqtggtmP8LZxrpysm2Fn8DS81CRLGiMY3pIiiPYU/edit#heading=h.96illntkxm28 Establishing Silence]</div>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/14_VKqtggtmP8LZxrpysm2Fn8DS81CRLGiMY3pIiiPYU/edit#heading=h.65gu85g57fjx Silent self-observation]</div>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/14_VKqtggtmP8LZxrpysm2Fn8DS81CRLGiMY3pIiiPYU/edit#heading=h.oegmttqi701m Communicating in Silence]</div>
<span div style="backgroundmargin-colorleft:transparent0.635cm;colormargin-right:#0000000cm;">… <[https:/span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">life seems to endow everyone not only with the possibility of expressing an ideal, but also with </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''contrary elements representing in a concrete manner the battle he has to wage and the victory he has to win for the realisation to become possibledocs.google. '''<com/document/d/14_VKqtggtmP8LZxrpysm2Fn8DS81CRLGiMY3pIiiPYU/span><span styleedit#heading="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Consequently, all life is an education pursued more or less consciously, more or less willinglyh.mfu7hq1k70u9 Concentrating together in Silence]</spandiv>
<span div style="backgroundmargin-colorleft:transparent0.635cm;colormargin-right:#0000000cm;">(The Mother,
<[https://docs.google.com/document/d/14_VKqtggtmP8LZxrpysm2Fn8DS81CRLGiMY3pIiiPYU/span><span styleedit#heading="background-color:transparent;color:#333333;">3 February 1954)h.sxgj3scdo9gq Silence in Education]</spandiv>
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</span>[httphttps://incarnateworddocs.google.incom/document/cwmd/0614_VKqtggtmP8LZxrpysm2Fn8DS81CRLGiMY3pIiiPYU/3-february-1954edit#p15 http://incarnatewordheading=h.dxtrm8vv51cw Resting in/cwm/06/3-february-1954#p15Silence]<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Silence: the condition of the being when it listens to the Divine.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/silence#p27 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/silence#p27]
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 4 September 1967)Silence is the absence of all motion of thought or other vibration of activity.</divspan>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p13 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p13]
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The stilling of this current, running, circling, repeating thought-mind is the principal part of that </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''silencing'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">of the thought which is one of the most effective disciplines of Yoga.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-intelligence-and-will#p12</u></span>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Silence is always good; but I do not mean by quietness of mind entire silenc</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''There is only one soul and one existencee'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent; therefore we all see one objectivity onlycolor:#000000; but there are many knots of ">. I mean a mind free from disturbance and ego in trouble, steady, light and glad so as to be open to the one soul-existence, therefore we all see Force that will change the one Object in different lights and shadowsnature.
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<span div style="background-color:transparent;color:#0000000066cc;">(The Mother, </spanu><span style="background-color:transparent;colorhttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/silence#333333;"p18</u>22 September 1969)</spandiv>
<div style="color:#000000;">It is in silence or quietude that we feel most firmly the Something that is behind the world shown to us by our mind and senses.</div>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0000000066cc;">The obstinate pertinacity with which we cling to our meagre, fragmentary, night<u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/reality-besieged and grief-besieged individual existence even while the unbroken bliss of our universal life calls to us, is one of the most amazing of God's mysteries. It is only equalled by the infinite blindness with which we cast a shadow of our ego over the whole world and call that the universal being. These two darknesses are the very essence and potency of Maya.
-cosmic-illusion#p24</u></divspan>
[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace#p4 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace#p4]
<span div style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">I said once that, to speak usefully for ten minutes, you should remain silent for ten days. I could add that, to act usefully for one day, you should keep quiet for a year! Of course, I am not speaking of the ordinary day-to-day acts that are needed for the common external life, but of those who have or believe that they have something to do for the world. And the silence I speak of is the inner quietude that those alone have who can act without being identified with their action, merged into it and blinded and deafened by the noise and form of their own movement. (The Mother,</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#333333;">7 June 1970</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">26 May 1929)</spandiv>
<div style="color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1003/aphorism26-539may-5401929#p1p30</u></div>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">But even before reaching this point, silence in itself is supremely useful, because in most people who have a somewhat developed and active mind, the mind is never at rest. During the day, its activity is kept under a certain control, but at night, during the sleep of the body, the control of the waking state is almost completely removed and the mind indulges in activities which are sometimes excessive and often incoherent. This creates a great stress </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">which leads to fatigue and the diminution of the intellectual faculties.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/mental-education#p20 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/mental-education#p20]
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Perfect love casts out fear; but But for the knowledge of the Self it is necessary to have the power of a complete intellectual passivity, the power of dismissing all thought, the power of the mind to think not at all which the Gita in one passage enjoins. This is a hard saying for the occidental mind to which thought is the highest thing and which will be apt to mistake the power of the mind not to think, its complete silence for the incapacity of thought. But this power of silence is a capacity and not an incapacity, a power and not a weakness. It is a profound and pregnant stillness. Only when the mind is thus entirely still keep thou some tender shadow , like clear, motionless and level water, in a perfect purity and peace of the whole being and the soul transcends thought, can the Self which exceeds and originates all activities and memory becomings, the Silence from which all words are born, the Absolute of which all relativities are partial reflections manifest itself in the exile pure essence of our being. In a complete silence only is the Silence heard; in a pure peace only is its Being revealed. Therefore to us the name of That is the Silence and it will make the perfection more perfectPeace.</divspan>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-purified-understanding#p18 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-purified-understanding#p18]
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc000000;">Philosophy knows nothing about peace and silence or the inner and outer vital. These things are discovered only by Yoga.<u/span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1028/aphorism-414the-415intellect-416and-417-418-419-420yoga#p7<p2 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/u><28/span><span style="backgroundthe-intellect-and-color:transparent;color:yoga#000000;">
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<div style="color:#000000;">...all moral suffering moulds your character But Yoga is not a mental field, the consciousness which has to be established is not a mental, logical or debating consciousness—it is even laid down by Yoga that unless and until the mind is stilled, including the intellectual or logical mind, and leads you straight opens itself in quietude or silence to ecstasya higher and deeper consciousness, when you know how to take itvision and knowledge, sadhana cannot reach its goal.</div>
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The silence of the mind does not of itself bring in the supramental consciousness; there are many states or planes or levels of consciousness between the human mind and the Supermind. The silence opens the mind and the rest of the being to greater things, sometimes to the cosmic consciousness, sometimes to the experience of the silent Self, sometimes to the presence or power of the Divine, sometimes to a higher consciousness than that of the human mind; the mind's silence is the most favourable condition for any of these things to happen. In this Yoga it is the most favourable condition (not the only one) for the Divine Power to descend first upon and then into the individual consciousness and there do its work to transform that consciousness, giving it the necessary experiences, altering all its outlook and movements, leading it from stage to stage till it is ready for the last (supramental) change.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1029/aphorismthe-divine-force-in-93work#p2 p7 http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1029/aphorismthe-93divine-force-in-work#p2p7]<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">
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<span div style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">And when you see a very black shadow somewhereObviously to live in the silent Brahman, very black, something that's truly painful, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''you know, you the best way is to live within where one can be sure that you have in you the possibility of the corresponding lightsilence and resist all outward pulls.
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<div style="color:#3333330066cc;">(The Mother, 21 December 1955)<u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-inward-movement#p57</u></div>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In silence lies the source of the highest inspirations.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/letters-to-a-young-sadhak-xii#p8</u></span>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#333333000000;">(The Mother, 26 November 1958)Silence: the ideal condition for progress.</divspan>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/silence#p1 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/silence#p1]
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<span div style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">And when Sri Aurobindo writes that the body is "</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''only an instrument and a shadow," he is speaking of the body as it is now and will probably </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">continue to be for a long time to come. It is only the instrument of the Self, a very inadequate expression of this Self, and a shadow—a shadow, something vague and obscure in comparison with the light and precision of In silence lies the eternal Selfgreatest devotion.'''</spandiv>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#333333000000;">(The Mother, 26 November 19586 April 1972)</divspan>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/6-april-1972#p1 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/6-april-1972#p1]
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is in silence that the soul best expresses itself.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/silence#p22</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In the silence of our heart there is always peace and joy.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/silence#p8</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In a quiet silence strength is restored.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/silence#p10 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/silence#p10]
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Always you will see that within you the shadow In peace and silence the light are equal: Eternal manifests. Let nothing trouble you have an ability, you have also and the negation of this ability… It is up to you to know how to use the one to realise the otherEternal will manifest.
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Silence in the vital: a powerful help for inner peace.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-vital#p26</u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It all depends on the quality of the silence—if it is a luminous silence, full of force and conscious concentration, it is good. If it is a tamasic and unconscious silence, it is harmful.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/10-june-1963#p3 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/10-june-1963#p3]
<div style="color:#333333000000;">(The Mother, 27 January 1972)It is out of this Silence that the Word which creates the worlds for ever proceeds; for the Word expresses that which is self-hidden in the Silence.</div>
== Inner Silence ==
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It is really an inner silence that is needed—a something silent within that looks at outer talk and action but feels it as something superficial, not as itself and is quite indifferent and untouched by it. It can bring forces to support speech and action or it can stop them by withdrawal or it can let them go on and observe without being involved or moved.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1531/thespeech-newand-consciousnessyoga#p2 p76 http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1531/thespeech-newand-consciousnessyoga#p2p76]<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">
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<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''...the physical body is truly nothing but a very disfigured shadow This condition you had of the eternal life of inner being and its silence, separated from the Self. But this physical body surface consciousness and its little restless workings, is capable of progressive development; through each individual formationthe first liberation, the physical substance progressesliberation of Purusha from Prakriti, and one it is the fundamental experience. The day when you can keep it will be capable of building a bridge between physical life as we , you can know that the Yogic consciousness has been founded in you. This time it has increased in intensity, but it and the supramental life which is to manifestmust also increase in duration.
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The condition you describe shows precisely the growth of this inner silence. It has to fix itself eventually as the basis of all spiritual experience and activity. It does not matter if one does not know what is going on within behind the silence. For there are two conditions in the Yoga, one in which all is silent and there is no thought, feeling or movement even though one is acting outwardly as others do—another in which a new consciousness becomes active bringing knowledge, joy, love and other spiritual feelings and inner activities, but yet at the same time there is a fundamental silence or quietude. Both are necessary in the development of the inner being. The absolutely silent state, which is one of lightness, voidness and release, prepares the other and supports it when it comes.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1029/aphorism-11silence#p17 p25 http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1029/aphorism-11silence#p17p25]<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is that everyone possesses in a large measureRemain very quiet, open your mind and your heart to Sri Aurobindo's influence and the exceptional individual in mine, withdraw deep into an increasing degree of precision, two opposite tendencies of character, in almost equal proportions, inner silence (which are like the light and the shadow of the same thing. Thus someone who has the capacity of being exceptionally generous will suddenly find an obstinate avarice rising up may be had in his natureall circumstances), call me from the courageous man will be a coward in some part depths of his being this silence and the good man will suddenly have wicked impulses… In certain cases this education you will encourage the movements that express the light, see me standing there in others, on the contrary, those that express the shadow. If the circumstances and the environment are favourable, the light will grow at the expense centre of the shadow; otherwise the opposite will happenyour being. And in this way the individual's character will crystallise according to the whims of Nature and the determinisms of material and vital life, unless a higher element comes in time, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0000000066cc;">'''<u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/letters-to-a conscious will which, refusing to allow Nature to follow her whimsical ways,'''-young-sadhak-iii#p12</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> All experiences come in the silence but they do not come all pell-mell in a crowd at the beginning. The inner silence and peace have first to be established.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0000000066cc;">will replace them by a logical and clear<u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-inward-sighted discipline. This conscious will is what we mean by a rational method of education.movement#p79</u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">I have seen many cases in which Sri Aurobindo had given silence to somebody, had made his mind silent, and that person came back to him in a kind of despair, saying: "But I have become stupid!" For his thought was no longer excited.</span>
<span div style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">I remember a painter with whom I had a talk about the possibility of immortality and who asked me what a new world would be like. I told him things would be, for instance(Sri Aurobindo, 30 January 1957)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''luminous in themselves and there would no longer be this kind of reflected light which comes here upon earth from the sun.'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">And as I was speaking I saw his face becoming longer, more and more grave; finally he said, "But then how can one do painting without the shadow which brings out the light of things?..." I told him, "You have given exactly the key to the problem."
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[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/30-january-1957#p19 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/30-january-1957#p19][http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/30-january-1957#p19 ]<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The MotherA 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,
</span><span style="backgroundthe 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-colorexistence:transparentbut 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;color:#333333;">3 February 1954)it is the passage not into non-existence but to a greater existence. </span>
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== General effects ==
<div style="color:#000000;">Besides, for inner growth, I do not believe that words are necessary. In silence all our help is there at its most powerful.</div>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 6 September 1939)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/6-september-1939#p3</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Already someone has told me, quite rightly, that while practising this half-silence, or at any rate this continence of speech, one achieves quite naturally the mastery of numerous difficulties in one's character and also one avoids a great many frictions and misunderstandings. This is true.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/impurity#p27 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/impurity#p27]
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(It must have been the descent of the higher silence, the silence of the Self or Atman. In this silence one perceives, but the mind is not active,—things are sensed, but without any responsive connection or vibration. The Mothersilent Self is there as a separate reality, not bound or involved in the activity of Nature, aloof, detached and self-existent. Even if thoughts come across this silence, they do not disturb it; the Self is separate from the thinking mind also. In this connection the feeling "I think" is a survival from the old consciousness; in the full silence what one feels is "thought occurs in me"—the identification with thoughts as well as with the perception of objects ceases.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#3333330066cc;">24 November 1954)<u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-descent-of-the-higher-powers#p26</u></span>
<div style="color:#000000;">This simply means that one suddenly comes under the influence of a higher force of which one is not conscious; one is conscious only of the effect, but not of the cause. That's all. It's nothing more than that. If you were conscious you would know what makes you silent, what makes you meditate, what kind of force has entered into you or acts upon you or influences you and puts you in the silence. But as you are not conscious, you are aware only of the effect, the result, that is, the silence that comes into you. </div>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 24 August 1955)</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/24-august-1955#p48 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/24-august-1955#p48]
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Or else, one may have an experience which is almost its very opposite but which comes to the same thing. Suddenly one plunges into a depth, one moves away from the thing one perceived, it seems distant, superficial, unimportant; one enters an inner silence or an inner calm or an inward vision of things, a profound feeling, a more intimate perception of circumstances and things, in which all values change. And one becomes aware of a sort of unity, a deep identity which is one in spite of the diverse appearances. (The Mother,26 December 1956)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#3333330066cc;">August 1951)<u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/26-december-1956#p19</u></span>
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When one has learned to silence the mind at will and to concentrate it in receptive silence, then there will be no problem that cannot be solved, no mental difficulty whose solution cannot be found. When it is agitated, thought becomes confused and impotent; in an attentive tranquillity, the light can manifest itself and open up new horizons to man's capacity.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/vitalmental-education#p8 p22 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/vitalmental-education#p8p22]
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The recurrence of the experience of the receding away of thoughts, the cessation of the thought-generating mechanism and its replacement by the mental self-space, is normal and as it should be; for this silence or at any rate the capacity for it has to grow until one can have it at will or even established in an automatic permanence. For this silence of the ordinary mind-mechanism is necessary in order that the higher mentality may manifest, descend, occupy by degrees the place of the present imperfect mentality and transform the activities of the latter into its own fuller movements. The difficulty of its coming when you are at work is only at the beginning—afterwards when it is more settled one finds that one can carry on all the activities of life either in the pervading silence itself or at least with that as the support and background. The silence remains behind and there is the necessary action on the surface or the silence is our wide self and somewhere in it an active Power does the works of Nature without disturbing the silence. It is therefore quite right to suspend the work while the visitation of the experience is there—the development of this inner silent consciousness is sufficiently important to justify a brief interruption or pause.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/three-experiences-of-the-inner-being#p4</u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">What one feels first [in the silence] is the pure existence of the self, without any idea, characteristic or movement—existence pure and simple, Sat Brahman—or else one feels that and a vast peace and wideness. Afterwards other things are felt such as Ananda, but always with this as the basis.</span><span style= Why Transform? =="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/experiences-of-the-self-the-one-and-the-infinite#p7</u></span>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Why this joy, this gladness, when There is no distinction between the Self and the world spirit. The psychic is forever burning? O you who are enveloped the soul that develops in shadowsthe evolution—the spirit is the Self that is not affected by the evolution, it is above it—only it is covered or concealed by the activity of mind, why do you not seek vital and body. The removal of this </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">covering is the release of the light?spirit—and it is removed when there is a full and wide spiritual silence.</divspan>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-psychic-being#p18 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-psychic-being#p18]
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It is in the silence of a peaceful mind that one can best commune with Nature. (The Mother, 13 November 1969)</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0316/old13-november-age1969#p1 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0316/old13-agenovember-1969#p1]<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0000000066cc;">
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<span style= Aids "background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">When one begins to feel the inner being and live in it (the result of the Process experience of Transformation =peace and silence) the ordinary time sense disappears or becomes purely external.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/science-and-yoga#p56 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/science-and-yoga#p56]
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If you, in your consciousness, reach a state of silence, you perceive your state of silence everywhere, but others don't necessarily perceive it. You perceive it because you are in that state. </span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 24 August 1955)</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/24-august-1955#p42 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/24-august-1955#p42]
<span div style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The MotherThere is another phenomenon which is considered spiritual,</span><span style="background-colorbut which is spiritual only indirectly:transparent;color:#333333;">25 April 1958)it is when you find yourself near someone who has controlled his thought and achieved mental silence. You suddenly feel this silence coming down into yourself and something which was impossible for you half an hour earlier suddenly becomes a reality. This is a rather unusual phenomenon. </spandiv>
== Ascent and Descent ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">There are two movements that are necessary—one is the ascent through the increasing of peace and silence to its source above the mind,—that is indicated by the tendency of the consciousness to rise out of the body to the top of the head and above where it is easy to realise the Self in all its stillness and liberation and wideness and to open to the other powers of the Higher Consciousness. The other is the descent of the peace, silence, the spiritual freedom and wideness and the powers of the higher consciousness as they develop into the lower down to the most physical and even the subconscient. To both of these movements there can be a block—a block above due to the mind and lower nature being unhabituated (it is that really and not incapacity) and a block below due to the physical consciousness and its natural slowness to change. Everybody has these blocks but by persistent will, aspiration or abhyāsa they can be overcome.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/ascent-and-descent#p16 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/ascent-and-descent#p16]
<span div style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The MotherI have said that the most decisive way for the Peace or the Silence to come is by a descent from above. In fact,</span><span style="background-color:transparentin reality though not always in appearance, that is how they always come;color:#333333—not in appearance always, because the sadhak is not always conscious of the process;">8 July 1953)he feels the peace settling in him or at least manifesting, but he has not been conscious how and whence it came. Yet it is the truth that all that belongs to the higher consciousness comes from above, not only the spiritual peace and silence, but the Light, the Power, the Knowledge, the higher seeing and thought, the Ananda come from above.</spandiv>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">You must dismiss the fear of the concentration. The emptiness you feel coming on you is the silence of the great peace in which you become aware of your self, not as the small ego shut up in the body, but as the spiritual self wide as the universe. Consciousness is not dissolved; it is the limits of the consciousness that are dissolved. In that silence thoughts may cease for a time, there may be nothing but a great limitless freedom and wideness, but into that silence, that empty wideness descends the vast peace from above, light, bliss, knowledge, the higher Consciousness in which you feel the oneness of the Divine. It is the beginning of the transformation and there is nothing in it to fear.</span><span style= Trust =="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-universal-or-cosmic-consciousness#p37</u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The danger of the mental forces is that when the higher consciousness descends they tend (unless there is a deep silence) to become active in the consciousness for forming ideas of a mental type which can always be misapplied. First, there should be a basis of entire calm, peace and silence—if there is activity, it should be that of a knowledge coming down and the mind silent receiving it accurately. This you can easily have, provided the mind is quiet.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/descent-and-the-lower-nature#p14</u></span>
<div style="color:#000000;">If your consciousness rises above the head, that means that it goes beyond the ordinary mind to the centre above which receives the higher consciousness or else towards the ascending levels of the higher consciousness itself. The first result is the silence and peace of the Self which is the basis of the higher consciousness; this may afterwards descend into the lower levels, into the very body. </div>
<span div style="background-color:transparent;color:#0000000066cc;">If the </spanu><span style="background-colorhttp:transparent;color:#000000;">'''trust '''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">is there, spontaneous, candid, unquestioning, it works better than anything else, and the results are marvellous/incarnateword. It is with the contradictions and doubts of the mind that one spoils everything, with this kind of notion which comes when one is in difficulties. one builds a wall between oneself /cwsa/30/ascent-and the force one wants to receive. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:descent#000000;">'''The psychic being has this trust'''p9</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"u>, has it wonderfully, without a shadow, without an argument, without a contradiction. And when it is like that, there is not a prayer which does not get an answer, no aspiration which is not realised.</spandiv>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Those who are at the bottom of the scale, who have never trained their minds, find it necessary to speak in order to think. It happens even that it is the sound of their voice which enables them to associate ideas; if they do not express them, they do not think. At a higher level there are those who still have to move words about in their heads in order to think, even though they do not utter them aloud. Those who truly begin to think are those who are able to think without words, that is to say, to be in contact with the idea and express it through a wide variety of words and phrases. There are higher degrees—many higher degrees—but those who think without words truly begin to reach an intellectual state and for them it is much easier to make the mind quiet, that is to say, to stop the movement of associating the words that constantly move about like passers-by in a public </span><span style= Surrender "background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">square, and to contemplate an idea in silence.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/conjugate-verses#p89</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In the entirely silent mind there is usually the static sense of the Divine without any active movement. But there can come into it all higher thought and aspiration and movements. There is then no absolute silence but one feels a fundamental silence behind which is not disturbed by any movement.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/silence#p6 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/silence#p6]
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The MotherIt is not necessary [in a calm mind] that there should be no thought. When there is no thought,it is silence. But the mind is said to be calm when thoughts, feelings, etc. may pass through it, but it is not disturbed. It feels that the thoughts are not its own; it observes them perhaps; but it is not perturbed by anything.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#3333330066cc;">1930 <u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet- 1931)and-calm#p58</u></span>
<span div style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother,''What is meant by the "silence of the physical consciousness" and how can one remain in this silence?''</spandiv>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/26-april-1951 26 April 1951)]
<div style="color:#000000;">Human nature is made But if through meditation or concentration we turn inward or upward, we can bring down into ourselves or raise up of imperfectionsfrom the depths calm, even its righteousness and virtue are pretensionsquiet, imperfections peace and prancings of self-approbatory egoism..finally silence.. What is aimed at by us It is a spiritual truth as the basis of lifeconcrete, positive silence (not the first words negative silence of which are surrender and union with the Divine and the transcendence absence of ego. So noise), immutable so long as that basis is not establishedit remains, a sadhak is only an ignorant and imperfect human being struggling with silence one can experience even in the evils outer tumult of the lower naturea hurricane or battlefield.... What This silence is synonymous with peace and it is created by spiritual progress all-powerful; it is an inner closeness and intimacy in the inner beingperfectly effective remedy for the fatigue, the sense of the Mother's love tension and exhaustion arising from that internal over-activity and noise which generally escape our control and presence etccease neither by day nor night."</div>
<span div style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The MotherThis is why the first thing required when one wants to do Yoga is to bring down and establish in oneself the calm,the peace, the silence.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#333333;">24 February 1965)</spandiv>
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<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is certainly not by becoming morose If the peace and melancholy that one draws near silence continue to come down, they usually become so intense as to seize the Divinephysical mind also after a time.</span>[http://incarnateword. One must always keep in one's heart an unshakable faith /cwsa/29/concentration-and confidence and in one's head the certitude of victory. Drive away these shadows which come between you and me and hide me from your sight-meditation#p79 http://incarnateword. It is in the pure light of certitude that you can become conscious of my presence.</div>cwsa/29/concentration-and-meditation#p79]
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If the calm and silence are perfectly established in the physical, then if inertia comes it is itself something quiet and unaggressive, not bringing such disturbances. But to get rid of inertia altogether a strong dynamic calm is needed.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1631/lettersdifficulties-toof-athe-youngphysical-sadhak-ivnature#p13 p28 http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1631/lettersdifficulties-to-aof-youngthe-sadhakphysical-ivnature#p13p28]
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">NoIf the physical being has felt and assimilated the silence and peace, some begin with an offering and end with surrenderthen inertia ought not to rise up.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword. It depends upon in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the character of each one.-physical-nature#p29</u></divspan>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The MotherCertainly, 22 February 1951)peace, purity and silence can be felt in all material things—for the Divine Self is there in all.</divspan>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace#p27 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace#p27]
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 4 August 1929)As for the subconscient that is best dealt with when the opening of the consciousness to what comes down from above is complete. Then one becomes aware of the subconscient as a separate domain and can bring down into it the silence and all else that comes from above.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-subconscient-and-the-integral-yoga#p49</u></divspan>
<span div style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The MotherGenerally,</span><span style="background-color:transparentwhen you have what you call dreamless sleep, it is one of two things;color:#333333either you do not remember what you dreamt or you fell into absolute unconsciousness which is almost death—a taste of death. But there is the possibility of a sleep in which you enter into an absolute silence, immobility and peace in all parts of your being and your consciousness merges into Sachchidananda. You can hardly call it sleep, for it is extremely conscious. In that condition you may remain for a few minutes, but these few minutes give you more rest and refreshment than hours of ordinary sleep. You cannot have it by chance;">9 Dec 1954</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">)it requires a long training. </spandiv>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 21 April 1929)</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1403/the21-divineapril-is-with-you1929#p57 p11 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1403/the-divine-is21-withapril-you1929#p57p11]
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The sleep you describe in which there is a luminous silence or else the sleep in which there is Ananda in the cells, these are obviously the best states. The other hours, those of which you are unconscious, may be spells of a deep slumber in which you have gone out of the physical into the mental, vital or other planes. You say you were unconscious, but it may simply be that you do not remember what happened; for in coming back there is a sort of turning over of the consciousness, a transition or reversal, in which everything experienced in sleep except perhaps the last happening of all or else one that was very impressive, recedes from the physical awareness and all becomes as if a blank. There is another blank state, a state of inertia, not truly blank, but heavy and unremembering; but that is when one goes deeply and crassly into the subconscient; this subterranean plunge is very </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">undesirable, obscuring, lowering, often fatiguing rather than restful, the reverse of the luminous silence.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sleep#p50</u></span>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother,It is only in silence that anything great can be done.</span><span style="background-color[http:transparent;color//incarnateword.in/cwm/13/india#p59 http:#333333;">24 September 1945</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:/incarnateword.in/cwm/13/india#000000;">)</span>p59]
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">For the action is based on the silence and by the silence it is free.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/christianity-and-theosophy#p16</u></span>
<div style="color:#000000;">When you can live In silence lies the greatest receptivity. And in light and joy, are you going to cling to shadow and suffering?an immobile silence the vastest action is done. </div>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother,19 December 1971)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#3333330066cc;">27 June 1958<u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/span><span style="background19-december-color:transparent;color:1971#000000;"p1</u>)</span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In the silence of the heart, you will receive the command.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/silence#p7 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/silence#p7]
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 5 February 1956)To know how to observe in silence is the source of skillfulness.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/progress-and-perfection-in-work#p63</u></divspan>
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In concentration and silence we must gather strength for the right action.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1514/5-february-1956silence#p4 p16 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1514/5-february-1956silence#p4p16]<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">
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<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The only way of being truly free It is not possible for the spontaneous silent condition to make your surrender to the Divine entire, without reservationlast always at once, because then all but that binds you, ties you down, chains you, falls away naturally from you and has no longer is what must grow in one till there is a constant inner silence—a silence which cannot be disturbed by any outward activity or even by any importanceattempt at attack or disturbance. If someone comes and blames you, you may say, </span><span style="On what authority does he blame me, does he know the supreme will?background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;" And the same thing when you are congratulated><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/silence#p24</u></divspan>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The MotherBut there can be an action in the Silence, 10 February 1951)undisturbed even as the universal action goes on in the cosmic Silence.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/silence#p31</u></divspan>
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Whatever has been done in the world has been done by the very few who can stand outside the action in silence; for it is they who are the instruments of the Divine Power. They are dynamic agents, conscious instruments; they bring down the forces that change the world. </span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/10-february-1951#p8 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/10-february-1951#p8]<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">
Things can be done in that way, not by a restless activity. In peace, in silence and in quietness the world was built; and each time that something is to be truly built, it is in peace and silence and quietness that it must be done. It is ignorance to believe that you must run from morning to night and labour at all sorts of futile things in order to do something for the world. </span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The Mother, 26 May 1929)</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/26-may-1929#p28 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/26-may-1929#p28]
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">For knowledge It is in the silence of the mind that the strongest and power are essentially freest action can come, e.g. the writing of a book, poetry, inspired speech etc. When the same thing—that mind is to sayactive it interferes with the inspiration, you must not admit puts in any part its own small ideas which get mixed up with the inspiration or starts something from a lower level or simply stops the inspiration altogether by bubbling up with all sorts of your being this shadow mere mental suggestions. So also intuitions or action etc. can come more easily when the ordinary inferior movement of bad will which the mind is not there. It is also in contradiction to the central will silence of the mind that it is easiest for progress and which makes you impotentknowledge to come from within or above, without courage, without strength in from the psychic or from the face of an evil that you must destroyhigher consciousness.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.
in/cwsa/31/thought-and-knowledge#p65</u></divspan>
<span div style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The MotherAh! From the practical point of view, you must be in a state of inner silence, with a mental activity exclusively occupied with forming the thing you want to do, the progress you want to accomplish, that is to say, the mental construction you need for your work. And your capacity for observation—it is infinitely preferable, I could say absolutely indispensable, to use it to observe your field of action, the processes you employ for your action, the results obtained, the principle you can arrive at from the experience, the knowledge you can obtain, indeed,all these things... but not to turn back on yourself and look at yourself acting.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#333333;">21 March 1958</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">)</spandiv>
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(The Mother, 19 January 1955)</spandiv>
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(For me, for what I am trying to do, action in silence is always much more important.... The Motherforce which is at work is not limited by words, and this gives it an infinitely greater strength, and it expresses itself in each consciousness in accordance with its own particular mode, which makes it infinitely more effective. A certain vibration is given out in silence, with a special purpose, to obtain a definite result, but according to the mental receptivity of each person it is expressed in each individual consciousness exactly in the form which can be the most effective, the most active, the most immediately useful for each individual; while if it is formulated in words, this formula has to be received by each person in its fixity—the fixity of the words given to it—and it loses much of its strength and fullness of action because, first, 23 December 1950)the words are not always understood as they are said and then they are not always adapted to the understanding of each one.</divspan>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/5-june-1957#p11 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/5-june-1957#p11]
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The dynamic action when it comes acts without disturbing the silence and peace. There is the vast peace and silence and in that the Force or the Will works to do what is necessary—</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">in that also is the action of Agni or the psychic.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-force-in-work#p20 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-force-in-work#p20]
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">We have said that there is only one safety, never to act except in harmony with the divine Will. There is one question: how to know that it is the divine Will which makes you act? I replied to the person who put to me this question (although this person did not agree with me) that it is not difficult to distinguish the voice of the Divine: one cannot make a mistake. You need not be very far on the path to be able to recognise it; you must listen to the still, small peaceful voice which speaks in the silence of your heart. (The Mother, 1 May 19578 February 1951)</divspan>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/8-february-1951#p17 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/8-february-1951#p17]
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The Gita promises us freedom for the spirit even in the midst of works and the full energies of Nature, if we accept subjection of our whole being to that which is higher than the separating and limiting ego. It proposes an integral dynamic activity founded on a still passivity; a largest possible action irrevocably based on an immobile calm is its secret,—free expression out of a supreme inward silence.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/self-surrender-in-works-the-way-of-the-gita#p11</u></span>
<div style== Perseverance =="color:#000000;">The Supreme pours Himself out of an eternal peace, poise and silence into an eternal activity, free and infinite, freely fixing for itself its self-determinations, using infinite quality to shape out of it varied combination of quality. We have to go back to that peace, poise and silence and act out of it with the divine freedom from the bondage of qualities but still using qualities even the most opposite largely and flexibly for the divine work in the world.</div>
<div style="color:#0000000066cc;">It is willing to endure the utmost with a smile if it is a condition of the transformation<u>http://incarnateword. Neither complaining nor grumbling, it endures happily because it is for in/cwsa/23/the sake -modes-of -the Divine that it does so. It has the unshakable conviction that the victory will be won.-self#p11</u></div>
<div style="color:#000000;">(The MotherIt is possible only when one has had the experience of complete silence in the mental region and when the spiritual force with its light and power descends through the mind and makes it act directly without its following its usual method of analysis, 1930-31)deduction, reasoning. All these faculties which are usually considered the normal activities of the mind, must be stopped, and yet the spiritual Light, Knowledge and Power must be able to transform them into a channel of direct expression, without using these means to express themselves.</div>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">All speech and action comes prepared out of the eternal Silence.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-277-278#p1 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-277-278#p1]
<div style== Discipline =="color:#000000;">In any case, as the perfect man would combine in himself the silence and the activity, so also would the completely conscious soul reach back to the absolute freedom of the Non-Being without therefore losing its hold on Existence and the universe. </div>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If the mind Work is not wise and clear-sighted, the poor body suffers the consequences of the orders always best done in silence except so far as it receives. I do not is necessary to speak of for the orders it receives from the vitalwork itself. Conversation is best kept for leisure hours. So nobody should object to your silence during work.</span>[http://incarnateword. The mind in/cwsa/31/interactions-with its rigid principles -others-and -the vital -practice-of-yoga#p53 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/interactions-with its excesses -others-and outbursts and passions are quick to destroy -the body's equilibrium and to create a condition -practice-of fatigue, exhaustion and illness.
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<span div style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc000000;"><u>http://incarnateword.One can have a quiet mind without being in/cwm/04/25-january-1951#p18</u></span><span style="background-color:transparenta complete state of silence;color:#000000;">
one can carry on an activity without being disturbed. The ideal is to be able to act without coming out of the mental quietude.</spandiv>
<div style="color:#000000;">Well, for oneself, one must organise one's own things—and at the same time one's own ideas—in One can do everything while keeping the same waymind quiet, and must know exactly where things are and be able to go straight to them, because what one's organization does is logical… put their ideas into order and can also organise their character and can finally control their movements. And then, if you make progress, you succeed in governing your physical life; you begin to have a control over your physical movementsbetter done.</div>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 3 February 19547 December 1966)</divspan>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/7-december-1966#p7 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/7-december-1966#p7]
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">What has to happen is that this inner consciousness should be always there not troubled by any disturbance with the constant silence, inner happiness, calm quietude, etc., while the outer consciousness does what is necessary in the way of work etc. or, what is better, has that done through it—it is the latter experience that you have some days as someone pushing the work with so much continuous force without your feeling tired.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-inward-movement#p74</u></span>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">But it It is precisely by action in silence that we can best do our work much more than by speech or writing, which can only when you look yourself be subordinate and secondary. For in this Yoga those will succeed best who know how to obey and follow the facewritten and spoken word, but can also bear the silence and feel in it and receive (without listening to other voices or mistaking mental and vital suggestions and impulsions for the divine Truth and the divine Will) help, support and guidance.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the light -lower-vital-being#p36</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">As for calm and silence, there is no need of your highest consciousnessthe supramental to get that. One can get it even on the level of Higher Mind which is the next above the human intelligence. I got these things in 1908, that whatever twenty-seven years ago and I can assure you want they were solid enough and marvellous enough without any need of supramentality to eliminate from your nature will disappearmake it more so! Again, a calm that "seems like motion" is a phenomenon of which I know nothing. Without this striving A calm or silence which can support or produce action—that I know and that is what I have had—the proof is that out of an absolute silence of the mind I edited the Bande Mataram for absolute sincerityfour months and wrote 6½ volumes of the Arya, not to speak of all the defectletters and messages etc. etc. I have written since. If you say that writing is not an action or motion but only something that seems like it, a jugglery of the little shadowconsciousness,—well, will stay still out of that calm and silence I conducted a pretty strenuous political activity and have also taken my share in a corner biding its time keeping up an Asram which has at least an appearance to come outthe physical senses of being solid and </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">material!</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.
in/cwsa/28/the-supermind-or-supramental#p45</u></divspan>
<div style="color:#000000;">The method for each individual is worked out as In silence lies the activity proceeds, for each ego has its own character and needs a particular methodgreatest receptivity. The only qualities indispensable for all are absolute perseverance and sincerity. The least tendency to deceive oneself makes success impossibleAnd in an immobile silence the vastest action is done.
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<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 9 Devember 19 December 1971)</divspan><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/19-december-1971#p1</u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 24 August 1955)</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/24-august-1955#p37 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/24-august-1955#p37]
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">''(The Another child) Mother, 12 November 1952)when you speak we try to understand with the mind, but when you communicate something in silence, on what part of the being should we concentrate?''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is always better, for meditation—you see, we use the word "meditation", but it does not necessarily mean "moving ideas around in the head", quite the contrary—it is always better to try to concentrate in a centre, the centre of aspiration, one might say, the place where the flame of aspiration burns, to gather in all the energies there, at the solar plexus centre and, if possible, to obtain an attentive silence as though one wanted to listen to something extremely subtle, something that demands a complete attention, a complete concentration and total silence. And then not to move at all. Not to think, not to stir, and make that movement of opening so as to receive all that can be received, but taking good care not to try to know what is happening while it is happening, for if one wants to understand or even to observe actively, it keeps up a sort of cerebral activity which is unfavourable to the fullness of the receptivity—to be silent, as totally silent as possible, in an attentive concentration, and then be still. </divspan>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 23 July 1958)</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/23-july-1958#p10 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/23-july-1958#p10]
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Happy heart: smilingEvery kind of realisation—infinite self, cosmic consciousness, the Mother's Presence, Light, Force, Ananda, peacefulKnowledge, wide openSachchidananda realisation, without a shadowthe different layers of consciousness up to the Supermind—all these can come in the silence which remains but ceases to be blank.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.
in/cwsa/30/emptiness-voidness-blankness-and-silence#p37</u></divspan>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother)This kind of revelation can only occur in a silent mind—at least in a mind that is at rest, completely quiet and still, otherwise they do not come. Or if they come, you do not notice them, because of all the noise you are making. And of course, they help this quiet, this silence, this receptivity to become better and better established. This feeling of something so still—but not closed, still but open, still but receptive—is something which becomes established through repeated experiences. There is a great difference between a silence that is dead, dull, unresponsive and the receptive silence of a quietened mind. That makes a great difference. But that is the result of these experiences. All the progress we make always results, quite naturally, from truths coming from above.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-77-78#p20</u></divspan>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is an admirable state; it is perfect peace of mind. There is no longer any need to accumulate acquired knowledge, received ideas which have to be memorised; it is no longer necessary to clutter one's brain with thousands and thousands of things in order to have at one's command, when the time comes, the knowledge that is needed to perform an action, to impart a teaching, to solve a problem. The mind is silent, the brain is still, everything is clear, quiet, calm; and at the right moment, by divine Grace a drop of light falls into the consciousness and what needs to be known is known. Why should one care to remember—why try to retain that knowledge? On the day or at the moment that it is needed one will have it again. At each second one is a blank page on which what must be known will be inscribed—in the peace, the repose, the silence of a perfect receptivity.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-4#p4</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Silence and a modest, humble, attentive receptivity; no concern for appearances or even any anxiety to be—one is quite modestly, quite humbly, quite simply the instrument which of itself is nothing and knows nothing, but is ready to receive everything and transmit everything.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1410/happinessaphorism-4#p1 p6 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1410/happinessaphorism-4#p1p6]
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The first necessity I am going to give you two examples to make you understand what true spontaneity is to abstain from thinking . One—you all know about it undoubtedly—is of anyone the time Sri Aurobindo began writing the Arya, in 1914. It was neither a depreciatory way. When we meet mental knowledge nor even a personmental creation which he transcribed: he silenced his mind and sat at the typewriter, and from above, from the higher planes, our criticising thoughts give all that had to himbe written came down, all ready, so and he had only to say, a blow move his fingers on the nose which naturally creates a revolt in himtypewriter and it was transcribed. It is our was in this state of mental formation silence</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">which allows the knowledge—and even the expression—from above to pass through that acts like he wrote the whole Arya, with its sixty-four printed pages a deforming mirror to that personmonth. This is why, besides, he could do it, and then one for if it had been a mental work of construction it would become queer even if one were nothave been quite impossible.</divspan>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother,29 August 1956)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/29-august-1956#p4</u></span><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 </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''silence'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#333333000000;">18 July 1954</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">)one's mind, to turn it like a receptacle towards the higher Consciousness and express as it receives it, in mental </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:#000000;">At first it might seem the straight and right way to silence the mind altogether, to silence the intellect, the mental and personal will, the desire mind and the mind of emotion and sensation, and to allow in that perfect silence the Self, the Spirit, the Divine to disclose himself and leave him to illuminate the being by the supramental light and power and Ananda. And this is indeed a great and powerful discipline. It is the calm and still mind much more readily and with a much greater purity than the mind in agitation and action that opens to the Infinite, reflects the Spirit, becomes full of the Self and awaits like a consecrated and purified temple the unveiling of the Lord of all our being and nature. It is true also that the freedom of this silence gives a possibility of a larger play of the intuitive being and admits with less obstruction and turmoil of mental groping and seizing the great intuitions, inspirations, revelations which emerge from within or descend from above. It is therefore an immense gain if we can acquire the capacity of always being able at will to command an absolute tranquillity and silence of the mind free from any necessity of mental thought or movement and disturbance and, based in that silence, allow thought and will and feeling to happen in us only when the Shakti wills it and when it is needful for the divine purpose.</div>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Descents of peace are good, but an increasingly stable quietude and silence of the mind is something more valuable. When that is there then other things can come—usually one at a time, light or strength and force or knowledge or ananda. </span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1230/the-four-austerities-and-the-fourinward-liberationsmovement#p75 http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1230/the-four-austerities-and-the-fourinward-liberationsmovement#p75]
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">… they should have developed Supreme Lord, teach us to be silent so that in their character and action a great deal of patience, endurance, kindness, understanding silence we may receive Thy force and impartialityunderstand Thy will. They should have no likes or dislikes, no attractions or repulsions</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/prayers#p105</u></divspan>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is the realisation which is expressed in action. There is a realisation in inaction like that of those who enter into contemplations from which they don't come out, Certain silences are revelations and who don't move; and then there is a dynamic realisation which transforms all your action, all your movements, all your way of being, your characterare more expressive than words.</divspan>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/silence#p18 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/silence#p18]
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is obviously in the silence of the mind that it is possible to perceive the Divine Command. The true way of knowing is above words and thoughts.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-262-263-264#p6</u></span>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">As soon as the presence of the psychic consciousness It is united with the aspirationonly in perfect quietness and silence, free from all prejudices and preferences, that the intensity takes on quite a different character, as if it were filled with consciousness can perceive the very essence of an inexpressible joytruth.</divspan>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/work-and-teaching-1#p28 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/work-and-teaching-1#p28]
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">But the timeless self knowledge of this Eternal is beyond mind; it is a supramental knowledge superconscient to us and only to be acquired by the stilling or transcending of the temporal activity of our conscious mind, by an entry into Silence or a passage through Silence into the consciousness of eternity.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/memory-self-consciousness-and-the-ignorance#p5 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/memory-self-consciousness-and-the-ignorance#p5]
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</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000In Silence is wisdom"—it is in the inner silence of the mind that true knowledge can come;">(The Mother,for the ordinary activity of the mind only creates surface ideas and representations which are not true knowledge. Speech is usually only the expression of the superficial nature—therefore to throw oneself out too much in such speech wastes the energy and prevents the inward listening which brings the word of true knowledge.</span><span style="background-color[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/silence#ffffff;colorp9 http:#333333;">14 January 1963</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:/incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/silence#000000;">)</span>p9]
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<div style== Humour "color:#000000;">Behind the common idea that a Yogi can know all things and answer all questions is the actual fact that there is a plane in the mind where the memory of everything is stored and remains always in existence. All mental movements that belong to the life of the earth are memorised and registered in this plane. Those who are capable of going there and care to take the trouble, can read in it and learn anything they choose. But this region must not be mistaken for the supramental levels. And yet to reach even there you must be able to silence the movements of the material or physical mind; you must be able to leave aside all your sensations and put a stop to your ordinary mental movements, whatever they are; you must get out of the vital; you must become free from the slavery of the body. Then only you can enter into that region and see. But if you are sufficiently interested to make this effort, you can arrive there and Embracing Shadow ==read what is written in the earth's memory.</div>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">On the contrary, He has a sense of humour—Sri Aurobindo has told us many times already that the Supreme has a sense of humour, that we are the ones who want to make Him into a grave and invariably serious character—and He may find it very amusing to come and embrace an unbeliever. Someone who has only the day before declared(The Mother, 23 June 1929)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"God does not exist><u>http://incarnateword. I do not believe in Him. All that is folly and ignorance....", He gathers him into His arms, He presses him to His heart—and He laughs in his face.
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">No, you don't understand. To go to that place, at the time of going you must be able to completely silence the mind (and all the other things I have mentioned), but just for going there. For example, you decide: "Now, I am going to read such and such a chapter of earth's history", then you lounge comfortably in an easy-chair, you tell people not to disturb you, you go within yourself and completely stop your mind, and you send your mental messenger to that place.... It is preferable to have someone who can guide you there, because otherwise you can lose your way and go elsewhere! And then you go. It is like a very big library with many many small compartments. So you find the compartment corresponding to the information you wish to have. You press a button and it opens. And inside it you find a scroll as it were, a mental formation which unrolls before you like a parchment, and you read. And then you make a note of what you have read and afterwards return quietly into your body with the new knowledge, and you may transcribe physically, if you can, what you have found, and then you get up and start your life as before.... This may take you ten minutes, it may take one hour, it may take half an hour, it depends upon your capacity, but it is important to know the way, as I said, in order not to make a mistake. (The Mother,30 September 1953)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#3333330066cc;">5 December 1958<u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/30-september-1953#p6</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">)If intellectual culture is carried to its furthest limit, it leads the mind to the unsatisfactory acknowledgement that it is incapable of knowing the Truth and, in those who aspire sincerely, to the necessity of being quiet and opening in silence to the higher regions which can give you knowledge.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-160-161#p5</u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Truth is above mind; it is in silence that one can enter into communication with it.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/truth-is-above-mind#p21</u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In a general and almost absolute way, if you truly wish to profit from these readings, as from all of Sri Aurobindo's writings, the best method is this: having gathered your consciousness and focused your attention on what you are reading, you must establish a minimum of mental tranquillity—the best thing would be to obtain perfect silence—and achieve a state of immobility of the mind, immobility of the brain, I might say, so that the attention becomes as still and immobile as a mirror, like the surface of absolutely still water. Then what one has read passes through the surface and penetrates deep into the being where it is received with a minimum of distortion. Afterwards—sometimes long afterwards—it wells up again from the depths and manifests in the brain with its full power of comprehension, not as knowledge acquired from outside, but as a light one carried within.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-2#p19</u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In any case, I advise always to read a little at a time, keeping the mind as tranquil as one can, without making an effort to understand, but keeping the head as silent as possible, and letting the force contained in what one reads enter deep within. This force received in the calm and the silence will do its work of light and, if needed, will create in the brain the necessary cells for the understanding. Thus, when one re-reads the same thing some months later, one perceives that the thought expressed has become much more clear and close, and even sometimes altogether familiar.</span><span style= Equanimity "background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/study-of-works-of-sri-aurobindo-and-the-mother#p4</u></span><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 mental silence and begin again daily until you obtain a result.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/study-of-works-of-sri-aurobindo-and-the-mother#p29</u></span>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">I can't say that the reading of literature equips one better to understand Sri Aurobindo.On the contrary, it can be a hindrance..For, the same words are used and the purpose for which they are used is so different from the purpose for which Sri Aurobindo has made use of them, the manner in which they should have developed been put together to express things is so different from Sri Aurobindo's that these words tend to put one off from the light which Sri Aurobindo wants to convey to us through them. To get to Sri Aurobindo's light we must empty our minds of all that literature has said and done. We must go inward and stay in their character and action a great deal of patience, endurance, kindness, understanding receptive silence and impartialityturn it upward. They should Then alone we get something in the right way. At the worst, I have no likes or dislikes, no attractions or repulsionsseen that the study of literature makes one silly and perverse enough to sit in judgment on Sri Aurobindo's English and find fault with his grammar!</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/reading#p31</u></divspan>
<div style="color:#000000;">I don't know if any of you are so fond of music as to know how to hear it. But if you want to listen to music, you must create an absolute silence in your head, you must not follow or accept a single thought, and must be entirely concentrated, like a sort of screen which receives, without movement or noise, the vibration of the music. That is the only way, there is no other, the only way of hearing music and understanding it. If you admit in the least the movements and fancies of your thought, the whole value of the music escapes you. Well, to understand a teaching which is not quite of the ordinary material kind but implies an opening to something more deep within, this necessity of silence is far greater still. If, instead of listening to what you are told, you begin to jump on the idea in order to ask another question or even to discuss what is said under the false pretext of understanding better, all that you are told passes like smoke without leaving any effect. </div>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 25 July 1956)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/25-july-1956#p12</u></span>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">There are physical movementsTo hear it one should make oneself as silent and passive as possible. And if, in the mental silence, effects a part of the pressure being can take the attitude of the Yogawitness who observes without reacting or participating, then one can take account of the effect which sometimes create ungrounded fears that may do harm the music produces on the feelings and emotions; and if the fear is not rejected… You must keep an unshaken confidence it produces a state of deep calm and feel of semi-trance, then that whatever happens is quite good.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p81</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In the thing same way as one can share the emotions of another person by sympathy, spontaneously, by an affinity more or less deep, or else by an effort of concentration which ends in identification. It is this last process that had one adopts when one listens to music with an intense and concentrated attention, to happen. Once you have chosen the pathpoint of checking all other noise in the head and obtaining a complete silence, into which fall, by drop, the notes of the music whose sound alone remains; and with the sound all the feelings, you must boldly accept all the consequences movements of your choiceemotion can be perceived, experienced, felt as if they were produced in ourselves.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p84</u></divspan>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The MotherFight, while thy hands are free, with thy hands and thy voice and thy brain and all manner of weapons. Art thou chained in the enemy's dungeons and have his gags silenced thee? Fight with thy silent all besieging soul and thy wide-ranging will-power and when thou art dead, fight still with the world-encompassing force that went out from God within thee.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10 February 1951)/aphorism-272-273#p3</u></divspan>
== Food ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is much better to eat the meal in silence or at any rate in quietness.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/food#p9</u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If by Yoga you are capable of reaching this source of all art, then you are master, if you will, of all the arts. Those that may have gone there before, found it perhaps happier, more pleasant or full of a rapturous ease to remain and enjoy the Beauty and the Delight that are there, not manifesting it, not embodying it upon earth. But this abstention is not all the truth nor the true truth of Yoga; it is rather a deformation, a diminution of the dynamic freedom of Yoga by the more negative spirit of Sannyasa. The will of the Divine is to manifest, not to remain altogether withdrawn in inactivity and an absolute silence; if the Divine Consciousness were really an inaction of unmanifesting bliss, there would never have been any creation.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/28-july-1929#p25</u></span>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">I shall not If you don't do itthat, you are wasting your time, and, into the bargain, wasting mine. That's a proved fact. I shall not move; even if thought I have to bind myself hand and foothad already told you this several times, but still perhaps I shall not do itdidn't tell you clearly enough." It is a partial success—but it is a great victory becauseIf you come here, due to come with the intention of listening in silence. What happens you will know later; the effect of this, next time silent attitude you will be able recognise later; but for the moment, the only thing to do a little moreis to be like this (gesture), silent, immobile, attentive, concentrated.</divspan>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 5 August 195325 July 1956)</divspan><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/25-july-1956#p14</u></span>
== Silent Listening ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 12 March 1951)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/12-march-1951#p9</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is a matter of attention. If you concentrate your attention on what is being said, with the will to understand it correctly, the silence is created spontaneously—it is attention that creates the silence. </span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 12 March 1951)</span><span style= Desire =="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/12-march-1951#p12</u></span>
<div style="color:#000000;">Desires are waves All the other senses undergo a similar transformation. All that the ear listens to, reveals the totality of its sound body and sound significance and all the tones of its vibration and reveals also to the single and complete hearing the quality, the rhythmic energy, the vast sea soul of the obscure lower nature sound and they pass from its expression of the one person to anotheruniversal spirit. Men do not generate a desire in themselvesThere is the same internality, but are invaded by these waves; whoever is open the going of the sense into the depths of the sound and the finding there of that which informs it and extends it into unity with the harmony of all sound and without defence no less with the harmony of all silence, so that the ear is caught always listening to the infinite in them its heard expression and tossed aboutthe voice of its silence.</div>
== Habits =Disturbance of Silence =
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Social habits are something terrible… when you understand thatThis is true, you can look at yourself doingaltogether true, objectivise yourself, laugh a little it is at the moment when all those multiple small bondages is silenced in order that man may become conscious of habithis origin that he, traditionsin his folly, the education you have received, and then put the light, consciousness, aspiration for surrender in order to distract himself conceives or carries out the Divine on these things, and try to receive the divine inspiration to do things as it's necessary, not according to habits, not according to one's vital impulses, not according to all the vital impulses and personal wills which one receives from others and which push him to do things which perhaps he would not have done without all thatworst stupidities.</divspan>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 20 July 195512 March 1951)</divspan>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/12-march-1951#p48 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/12-march-1951#p48]
<div style="color:#000000;">In making a noise? Because they like to deaden themselves. In silence they have to face their own difficulties, they are in front of themselves, and usually they don't like that. In the noise they forget everything, they become stupefied. So they are happy. </div>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Changing the character is what comes last(The Mother, 26 January 1955)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword. One must control bad habits, the old habits, for a very long time for them to drop off and the character to change… Your body, for instance, has certain reactions to cold, heat, hunger, and you are in the habit of having these reactions, and this habit has made a kind of formation in your physical nature, that is, a crease, a fixed crease of the body, and that's how it is. Formations are the result of habits./cwm/07/26-january-1955#p13</u></divspan>
<div style="color:#000000;">(The MotherTo try to solve this problem ascetics used to go away into forests and sit under a tree; there, 21 April 1951)of course, they had not to fear any contagion from other human beings. But it is very difficult to go to the very end of this resolution, for it quickly gets known that a saint is sitting under a tree in meditation, and immediately everybody rushes there! Not only does he not escape from the difficulty, but he increases it, for there is not a thing more dangerous than to teach others. You know just a little and you begin to teach others, and you are immediately compelled to say more than you know, because people put questions to you which you cannot answer, unless you are a hero of silence. In the world, those who want to pass themselves off as spiritual teachers—when people come and ask them something they do not know, they invent it. </div>
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<span style= Suffering "background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Man is the first animal on earth to be able to use articulate sounds. Indeed, he is very proud of this capacity and exercises it without moderation or discernment. The world is deafened with the sound of his words and Role sometimes one almost misses the harmonious silence of Shadow the plant kingdom.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-four-austerities-and-the-four-liberations#p34</u></span>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">For you are always under The descent of the illusion that pain belongs to you. This peace is not trueoften one of the first major positive experiences of the sadhana. Pain In this state of peace the normal thought-mind (buddhi) is something thrust upon you. But apt to fall silent or abate most of its activity and, when it does, very often either this vital mind can rush in , if one is not on one case's guard, you or else a kind of mechanical physical or random subconscient mind can begin to come up and act; these are open the chief disturbers of the silence. Or else the lower vital mind can try to disturb; that brings up the adverse forces you want ego and passions and their play. All these are signs of elements that have to reject from yourselfbe got rid of, because if they remain and in other of the other you are nothigher powers begin to descend, you are already too far away from them to be affected by them any longer; Power and soForce, instead Knowledge, Love or Ananda, those lower things may come across with the result that either the higher consciousness retires or its descent is covered up and the stimulation it gives is misused for the purposes of feeling the negative side they represent, you feel only lower nature. This is the positive side reason why many sadhaks after having big experiences fall into the Divine represents in the experienceclutch of a magnified ego, upheavals, ambition, exaggerated sex or other vital passions or distortions. It is always well therefore if a complete purification of the divine Grace which makes you progress, and vital can either precede or keep pace with the divine Grace you feel positive experience—at least in natures in which the divine Joyvital is strongly active.</divspan><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-mind#p48</u></span>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">And this is true even in When I wanted to send the physical field. A lion sitting and looking at you always seems groups ashore, those who were to land knew it automatically without my having to be telling yousay a word, "Ohand they came up in turn. Everything went on in silence, how fidgety you are!" It looks at you with such a peaceful air there was no need to speak to make oneself understood; but the silence itself on board the ship did not give that impression of wisdom! And all its powerartificiality it does here. Here, energywhen one wants silence, physical strength are thereone must stop talking; silence is the opposite of sound. There the silence was vibrant, gatheredliving, collectedactive and comprehensive, concentrated and―without a shadow of agitation―ready for action when the order is givencomprehensible.
(The Mother, 19 February 1958)</divspan>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-february-1958#p32 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-february-1958#p32]
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 14 November 1956)Silence... Oh! It is better to practise it than to talk about it.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-111-112#p4</u></divspan>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">But if you want to know things as they really arePractise silence of mind, you must be absolutely like a mirrorit gives power of understanding.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-mind#p85</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color: silent, peaceful, immobile, impartial, without preferences #000000;">Wait quietly for the exact indication; all mental intervention and decisions are arbitrary. The clear indication comes in a state the silence of total receptivitythe mind.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword. And if you are like in/cwm/14/the-mind#p89</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is only in mental silence that, you will begin to see that there are many things you are not aware of, but which are there, and which will start becoming active can hear the voice without distorting it—be very peaceful.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in you.
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<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The MotherIt is in quietness, 19 May 1954)peace and silence that the spiritual forces act.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/quiet#p26</u></divspan>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">A respectful and modest silence is the only attitude befitting a disciple.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0614/19control-mayof-1954speech#p15 p39 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0614/19control-mayof-1954speech#p15p39]<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">
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<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">But 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 in the best way of listening day and even at night and quiet their mind. This is thisfor them the key to all realisation—a quiet mind that knows how to keep quiet for hours together without roving. It You must not believe however that it is a very easy thing to be like do, 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 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 mirror '''</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 very concentratedopposing 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, very silentas water enters into a house with a leaky roof.</divnowiki></span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/conjugate-verses#p87 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/conjugate-verses#p87]
<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 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;">. Once the habit 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 to come to the surface. Particularly, if you have continued to cultivate the power of concentration and attention, only the thoughts that are needed will be allowed to enter the active external consciousness </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and they then become all the more dynamic and effective. And if, in the intensity of concentration, it becomes necessary not to think at all, all mental vibration can be stilled and an almost total silence secured. In this silence one can gradually open to the higher regions of the mind and learn to record the inspirations that come from there.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/mental-education#p19 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/mental-education#p19]</div>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The MotherThere 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, Jan 1971)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 be done it is the shortest and most powerful road to silence.</divspan>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/concentration-and-meditation#p24 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/concentration-and-meditation#p24]
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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; and as soon as one wants to be absolutely silent, one becomes aware of all these things which go on moving, moving, moving and make a lot of noise and prevent you from being silent. That is why it is better 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 aspire,'''</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 to pay 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, 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 of inner impassiveness, so that the concentration may be strong enough for you not to attend to all that continues to whirl about all around. 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 to stop a quarrel by shouting still louder than the ones who are quarrelling? Well, it is something like that. (</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;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/8-september-1954#p32</u></span>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''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 Yoga a state of samatā, 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 to reach this state. It helps the mental quietude and silence as well as the vital to come. It means indeed that the vital itself and the vital mind are already falling silent and becoming quiet. The Mother, 17 August 1955)thinking mind is sure to follow.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/interactions-with-others-and-the-practice-of-yoga#p100</u></divspan>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc000000;">First condition, know how to keep silent. And not only keep your tongue quiet, but silence <u/span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">your mind, keep the head silent. If you wish to have a true, sincere experience upon which you can build, you must know how to be silent, otherwise you have nothing but what you fabricate yourself, which is equivalent to zero. All that one can say is, "Heavens, what a fashioner my mind is!" (The Mother, 19 March 1951)</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0704/1719-augustmarch-19551951#p9<p34 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/u><04/div>19-march-1951#p34]
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In the light of this perfected consciousness, things appear To remain in silence as they are and not much as they want to appearpossible is good for a time. Your consciousness becomes a screen or mirror; but this But entire retirement is when you are in a state seldom found to be helpful—the lower movements may remain quiescent owing to want of contemplationstimulus from outside, but do not disappear. For that you must be able to </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''get an inner quietude and a mere observermastery over the outer movements '''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">which will resist any atmosphere.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc; when you are active, it is like a searchlight"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p74</u></divspan>
<div 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, 30 June 1929)beginning with a power of silence, exclusion, non-response.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p75</u></divspan>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 8 March 1951)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/8-march-1951#p4</u></span>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''The silence in the head and heart and the emptiness are both necessary'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">By closely observing your own characterand desirable. When they are there, become aware the consciousness finds them natural and they give it the sense of lightness and release; that is why the thoughts or speech of what needs the old kind are foreign to be transformed in order to achieve the ideal conditionit and when they come give fatigue. Then set to work sincerelyThis silence and emptiness must grow, observing your inner as well as your outer movements. And each time you discover something so that contradicts the ideal you have set for yourselfhigher consciousness with its knowledge, light, Ananda, make an effort to correct peace can come down in itand progressively replace the old things. They must indeed occupy not only head and heart but the whole body.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.
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<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Mind predominatesAh! First </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''you must will it,'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and then you must say, as to people who make a lot of noise, "Keep quiet, be quiet, be quiet!"; 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. Everything proceeds from mindThe first thing is not to listen to it. If a man speaks or acts with a purified mindMost of the time, happiness accompanies him as closely soon as his inseparable shadowall 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: "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: "Keep quiet", and make such a noise themselves that they are even noisier than the others!</divspan>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 19 May 1954)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#3333330066cc;">6 Sep 1957<u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/span><span style="background19-may-color:transparent;color:1954#000000;"p45</u>)</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;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0310/conjugateaphorism-462-verses463#p10p3</u></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;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/study#p88</u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The principal business of our mind is either a response of acceptance or refusal to these thought-waves (as also vital waves, subtle physical energy waves) or this giving a personal-mental form to thought-stuff (or vital movements) from the environing Nature Force. It was my great debt to Lele that he showed me this. "Sit in meditation," he said, "but do not think, look only at your mind; you will see thoughts coming into it; before they can enter throw them away from you till your mind is capable of entire silence." I had never heard before of thoughts coming visibly into the mind from outside, but I did not think of either questioning the truth or the possibility, I simply sat down and did it. In a moment my mind became silent as a windless air on a high mountain summit and then I saw a thought and then another thought coming in a concrete way from outside; </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''I flung them away before they could enter and take hold of the brain'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and in three days I was free. From that moment, in principle, the mental being in me became a free Intelligence, a universal Mind, not limited to the narrow circle of personal thought or a labourer in a thought-factory, but a receiver of knowledge from all the hundred realms of being and free too to choose what it willed in this vast sight-empire and thought-empire.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/thought-and-knowledge#p9</u></span>
<div style="color:#000000;">But before one reaches Among people who meditate there are some who know how to meditate, who concentrate not on an idea, but in silence, in an inner contemplation in which they say they reach even a higher state of consciousnessunion with the Divine; and that is perfectly all right. There are others, there is just a stage where one few, who can develop in oneself follow an idea closely and try to find exactly what it means; that too is all right. Most of the faculty time people try to concentrate and enter into a kind of reason a clearhalf sleepy and, precisein any case, logical reason, sufficiently objective in its vision very tamasic state. They become some kind of things. And when one has developed this reason—wellinert thing; the mind is inert, all impulsesthe feeling is inert, feelingsthe body is immobile. They can remain like that for hours, desires, all disturbances can be put in the presence of for there is nothing more durable than inertia! All this reason and that makes I am telling you reasonablenow—these are experiences of people I have met. Most And these people, when they come out of their meditation, sincerely believe they have done something troubles them, become very unreasonablegreat. But they have simply gone down into inertia and unconsciousness.</div>
<div style="color:#000000;">(The Mother, 20 January 195113 May 1953)</div>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">But That is, instead of being in a state of tension, instead of making a tremendous effort to rise above silence the mental inner machine and be able to </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''concentrate your thought upon what you want, when you do it quite simply, naturally, without effort, automatically'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">, and you decide to meditate for some reason or other, what you want to see, learn or know remains in your consciousness, not into and all the rest disappears as by a higher speculative mindmiracle; everything falls quiet in you, but far beyond all mental movements is not an easy thing.your being becomes silent, your nerves are altogether soothed, your </span><span style="background-color:#f1c232transparent;color:#000000;"> consciousness is wholly concentrated—naturally, spontaneously—and you enter with an intense delight into a yet more intense contemplation.</span>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 27 July 195517 February 1951)</divspan><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/17-february-1951#p36</u></span>
== Silence and Progress ==
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Silence: the ideal condition for progress.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0414/2-april-1951silence#p6p1</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">
It is only in silence that a true progress can be made; it is only in silence that one can rectify a wrong movement; it is only in silence that one can be of help to somebody else.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/silence#p3 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/silence#p3]
<div style="color:#000000;">Even the man of knowledge acts according to his own nature.... As a fire There is covered over by smoke and a mirror by dustgreater power in silence than in words, as an embryo is wrapped by however forceful. The greatest transformations have been achieved in the amnion, so knowledge is enveloped by desiresilence of concentration.</div>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 4 April 19562 November 1970)</divspan>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/2-november-1970#p1 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/2-november-1970#p1]
<div style="color:#000000;">In order to allow at all to the higher Light an adequate entry and force of working, it is necessary to acquire a power for quietude of the nature, to compose, tranquillise, impress a controlled passivity or even an entire silence on mind and heart, life and body</div>
<div style="color:#0000000066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword...they should have developed in their character and action a great deal of patience, endurance, kindness, understanding and impartiality. They should have no likes or dislikes, no attractions or repulsions./cwsa/22/the-ascent-towards-supermind#p26</u></div>
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You see, for those who are</span>[http<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''sincere,'''</incarnateword.inspan><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </cwmspan><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">sincere and very—how to put it?—v</12span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''ery straight in their aspiration'''</correspondencespan><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#p19 http://incarnateword000000;">, there is a marvellous help, there is an absolutely living, active consciousness which is ready to... to respond to any attentive silence.You could do six years' work insix months, but there should... there should not be any pretension, there should not be anything which tries to imitate, there should be no wanting to put on airs. There should... you should be truly, absolutely honest, pure, sincere, conscious that... you exist only by what comes from above. Then... then... then you could advance with giant strides. </cwm/12/correspondence#p19]span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 11 November 1967)</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/11-november-1967#p159 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/11-november-1967#p159]
<div style="color:#000000;">(The MotherNow, 5 March 1958)there is a greater depth of pain which leaves you in an absolute silence and opens the inner doors to greater depths which can put you in immediate touch with the Divine. But this indeed is not expressed in words. It changes your consciousness; but usually a long time elapses before one can say anything about it. </div>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The peace and </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;">must settle deep in, so deep that whatever comes from outside can only pass over the surface without troubling the settled calm within—it is good also that the meditation comes of itself. It means that the Yoga-Force is beginning to take up the sadhana.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace#p7 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace#p7]
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It It is a discipline to be followed. For a long time one may try and not succeed, but as soon as one succeeds in making a "mirror", still and attentive, one always obtains a result, not necessarily with a precise form the silence of thought but always complete identification with the sensations of a light coming from aboveDivine that true understanding is obtained.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword. And then, if one can receive this light coming from above without entering immediately into a whirl of activity, receive it in calm and /cwm/14/silence and let it penetrate deep into the being, then after a while it expresses itself either as a luminous thought or as a very precise indication here (Mother indicates the heart), in this other centre.
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In peace and inner silence you will more and more become conscious of the constant Presence.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0914/23-july-1958peace#p10 p18 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0914/23-july-1958peace#p10p18]
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Even None can say to the most rebellious are slavesDivine, because the only thing that liberates you is precisely the act of passing behind the veil and discovering what lies beyond it. Once you "I have seenknown Thee", you know who you are and once you have established your true identityyet all carry Him in themselves, you have and in the silence of their soul can hear the key to echo of the true transformationDivine's voice.</divspan>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/relationship-with-the-divine#p6 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/relationship-with-the-divine#p6]
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In the perfect silence of the contemplation all widens to infinity, and in the perfect peace of that silence the Divine appears in the resplendent glory of His light.</span>[<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1014/aphorism-7silence#p10 http:p14</u></incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-7#p10]span>
<div style="color:#000000;">Do not try to appear virtuous. See how much Feeling alone in the midst of human beings is the sign that you are united, one with everything that is anti-divine. Take your share of beginning to feel the burden, accept yourselves need to be impure and false and find in that way your own being contact with the Divine Presence. So you will be able must concentrate in silence and try to take up enter deep within to discover the Shadow and offer it. And Divine Presence in so far as you are capable the depths of taking it and offering ityour consciousness, then things will changebeyond all mental activity.</div>
== Surrender in Silence ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc000000;">Above all words, above all thoughts in the luminous silence of an aspiring faith <u/span>http<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''give yourself totally, unreservedly, absolutely to the Supreme Lord'''<//incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorismspan><span style="background-95color:transparent;color:#p7</u000000;"></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">
of all existences and He will do of you what He wants you to be.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/self-giving#p39 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/self-giving#p39]
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''Silence all outside noise, aspire for the Divine's help'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"><nowiki>; open integrally to it then it comes and surrender to its action, and it will effectively bring about your transformation.</nowiki></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/transformation#p29</u></span>
== Silent Aspiration ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 3 April 1972)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/3-april-1972#p1</u></span>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">To </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''make yourself blank in meditation'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">creates an inner silence; it does not mean that you have become nothing or have become a dead and inert mass. Making yourself an empty vessel, you invite that which shall fill it. It means that you release the stress of your inner consciousness towards realisation. (The Mother, 9 August 23 June, 1929)</divspan>
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<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''An aspiration for all that is essentially true, real, perfect'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">You can . And this aspiration must be a different person at different moments in your life. I know people who took decisionsfree from words, had simply a strong willsilent attitude, knew what they wanted but extremely intense and prepared to do itunvacillating. Then there was Not a little reversal in word must be allowed the being; another part came up right to enter there and spoilt all the work in ten minutesdisturb it.Hence it is evident that it is very important to become aware of the psychic being; one It must have be like a kind column of vibrations of signpost or a mirror aspiration, which nothing can touch—and in total silence—and therein, if something comes down, what descends (and will be clothed in words in which all things are reflected your mind and show themselves as they truly arein sounds in your mouth) will be the Word. But nothing less than this will do.</divspan>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 1 7 April 19531954)</divspan><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/7-april-1954#p32</u></span>
<div style="color:#000000;">Psychic memories have a very special character No; aspiration, as well as widening and a wonderful intensity. But that cannot be narrated in this way… But if at , comes from the time of waking up you are not in a hurry, you are not obliged to leave your bedheart, on the contrary you can remain there as long as you wishemotional centre, you need not even open your eyes; you keep your head exactly where it was and you make yourself like a tranquil mirror within and concentrate there. You catch just a tiny end of the tail door of your dream. You catch it and start pulling gently, without stirring in the least. You begin pulling quite gently, and then first one part comes, a little later another. You go backward; psychic or rather the last comes up first. Everything goes backward, slowly, and suddenly door leading to the whole dream reappearspsychic.</div>
<div style="color:#000000;">There On the other hand, the more quiet and silent the mind is , the capacity for a direct vision more can aspiration rise up from the depths of things. It is like a mirror the heart in which all things are reflected, whatever they may bethe fullness of its ardour. </div>
<div style="color:#000000;">(The Mother, 27 January 195417 September 1959)</div>
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<div style="color:#000000;">It is not If you can relax and feel at ease, it will be very good; if you can enter into the same thing in everyone; in each one it is differentsilence, that will be perfect. It is Every day we shall begin with the point prayer: "Grant that I may become conscious of Your presence"; and together we shall aspire for a moment in his nature or character through which he can touch the psychic silence and where he can receive the psychic influenceardour of our aspiration. </div>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 28 December 195510 March 1972)</divspan><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/10-march-1972#p3</u></span>
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''How can we establish a settled peace and silence in the mind?''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The After a </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''silence'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">) I mean that this exclusiveness is a habit. However, when one has done a little yoga seriously, one knows very well that one can think here (Mothershows the centre of the forehead between the eyebrows, then the right side, then the left) one can think here, one can think here, one can think in front and, as I was saying just now, one can think much higher—up but naturally, one thinks that all thought-phenomena, concentration, are produced in the brain—and when one </span><span style="background-color:#fffffftransparent;color:#333333000000;">7 November 1958'''thinks up above, here (Mother shows the space above the head), one thinks much better than when one thinks here'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">). It is only that one has never tried to do otherwise. Not "never tried", there are quite a number of people who have tried and have succeeded.</span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Only, when there is the peace and the mental silence, the vital mind tries to rush in and occupy the place or else the mechanical mind tries to raise up for the same purpose its round of trivial habitual thoughts. What the sadhaka has to do is t</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''o be careful to reject and hush these outsiders'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">, 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. That will is the will of the Purusha behind the mind; when the mind is at peace, when it is silent one can become aware of the Purusha, silent also, separate from the action of the nature.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/silence#p15</u></span>
== Silent self-observation ==
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Motherbest is to keep silent and look well at things, and little by little </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''you make notes within yourself and keep the record without pronouncing any judgment.'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">When you are able to keep all that within you, quietly, without agitation and present it very calmly before the highest part of your consciousness, with an attempt to maintain an </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">attentive silence, and wait, then perhaps, slowly, as if coming from a far distance and from a great height, 6 January 1951)something like a light will manifest and you will know a little more of truth. </divspan>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''Thus a division is created between the mind that thinks and wills and the mind that observes and the Purusha becomes the witness only;'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">he sees, he understands the process and laws of his thought, but detaches himself from it. Then as the master of the sanction he withdraws his past sanction from the tangle of the mental undercurrent and the reasoning intellect and causes both to cease from their importunities. He becomes liberated from subjection to the thinking mind and capable of the utter silence.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p9</u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The teacher should not be a book that It is read aloud, quite possible for thoughts to pass without disturbing the same silence—but for everyone, no matter what his nature and character. The first duty of the teacher is to help that you must be perfectly detached from the student to know himself thoughts and indifferent to discover what he is capable of doingthem.</span><span style="background-color[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/silence#ffe599;colorp4 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/silence#000000;">
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<div style="color:#000000;">Listen in a total silence of your whole being—mental, vital and physical.</div>
<span style= Yogic Discipline and Transformation of the Shadow ="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 6 July 1933)</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/6-july-1933#p6 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/6-july-1933#p6]
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">We sat together in silence for a few minutes, enjoying the company of our soul, and we witnessed the gates of Eternity opening wide before us.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/silence#p20 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/silence#p20]
<span div style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The MotherFor it is one of the powers of this inner consciousness to bring about what it sees to be the right thing by simply communicating in entire silence to the consciousness of another. That is the true way of acting—through the power of the inner consciousness, its knowledge, vision and will.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#333333;">November 1949</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">)</spandiv>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">… let us say a change in their character or a change in There are some who have the circumstances or a set flow of things—and then, they want speech by nature and those who are very vital cannot do without it at once; and as this usually does . But the latter case (not happen all at once, they pull being able to do without it down ) is obviously a disability from abovethe spiritual point of view. This There are also certain stages in the sadhana when one has to go inward and silence is what he calls at that time very necessary while </span><span style="clutchingbackground-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''unnecessary speech becomes a dispersion of the energies'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">or externalises the consciousness. They seize it, pull it towards themselves. But in It is especially this way one chat for chat's sake tendency that has neither the real thing nor the true movement. One can only have an imitation of the true thingto be overcome. </divspan>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p8 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p8]
[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p58 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p58]
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">But you have never noticed that it That is different? For example, your physical consciousness or your subtle physical consciousness, your vital consciousness or not the consciousness way. Absolute silence and looseness of your higher or lower vital, your psychic consciousness, your mental consciousness, each one talk are two extremes; neither is completely different! So when you sleep you good. I have one consciousnessseen many people practising maunavrata, and when you but afterwards they are awake you have another. In your waking state you look at things projected outside you, in your sleep state you see them interiorised. So it is just as though in one case you were pushed altogether outside yourself, in front, and in the other it is talkative as though you were looking at yourself in an inner mirrorbefore.
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<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p70</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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 </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''understand a book with a deep teaching in it, you must be able to read it in the mind's silence;'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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 </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Motherto adapt and adjust the two, 27 February 1955)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.</divspan>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is possible. Perhaps the one who is silent will understand the other who is not!... But when there is this full accord, even if it is not permanent, when you are with someone and follow a thought far enough to come out of the external agitation, if the other too has followed the same thought, you may find yourselves suddenly agreeing without having spoken or made any effort towards that. Generally the silence comes to both at the same time or almost the same time—it is as though you slid into the silence. Of course, it may happen also that one continues to make a noise in his head, while the other has stopped, but the one who has stopped has a much greater chance of understanding what is happening to the other! (The Mother, 19 March 1951)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/19-march-1951#p20</u></span>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The MotherIf you are not alone and live with others,</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''cultivate the habit of not externalising yourself constantly by speaking aloud'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">, and you will notice that little by little an inner understanding is established between yourself and others; you will then be able to communicate among yourselves with a minimum of words or even without any words at all. This outer silence is most favourable to inner peace, and with goodwill and a steadfast aspiration, you will be able to create a harmonious atmosphere which is very conducive to progress.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12 January 1955)/the-four-austerities-and-the-four-liberations#p42</u></divspan>
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Control over what one says is more important than complete silence. The best is to learn to say what is useful in the most exact and true way possible.</span>[<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0714/12control-januaryof-1955speech#p24 http:p1</u></incarnatewordspan><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If only people did remain a little quiet before speaking, acting or writing, much trouble could be avoided. So many things are said uselessly, they bring misunderstandings and bad feelings which could have been saved with silence.in</cwm/07/12-january-1955#p24]span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0000000066cc;">
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== Concentrating together in Silence ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">These rare moments of silence and the effort to concentrate together―if not to meditate―are they not an opportunity to receive your force and to open ourselves a little more to you and to Sri Aurobindo, helping to form our collective soul?</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0713/12-octobercommunity-1955affairs#p19p144</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">
Concentrating together is indeed a very good thing and helps you to become conscious. But </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">it cannot be imposed. I advise you and them to organise this moment of silence daily for all those who want to participate, but without imposing anything on the others. It is not compulsory but it is good.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/community-affairs#p146</u></span>
== Silence in Education ==
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">"It may well would be that the evolutionary urge would proceed interesting to formulate or to elaborate a change new method of the organs themselves in their material working and use and diminish greatly the teaching for children, to take them very young. It is easy when they are very young. We need people—oh! we would need remarkable teachers—who have, first, an ample enough documentation of their instrumentation what is known so as to be able to answer every question, and even of their existence. The centres in at the subtle bodysame time, sūkṣma śarīraat least the knowledge, of which one if not the experience—the experience would become conscious and aware of all going on in it be better—of the true intuitive intellectual attitude, and—naturally the capacity would pour their energies into material nerve and plexus and tissue and radiate them through be still more preferable—at least the whole material body; all knowledge that the physical life and its necessary activities in this new existence could be maintained and operated by these higher agencies in a freer and ampler true way and by a less burdensome and restricting method. This might go so far that these organs might cease to be indispensable and even be felt as too obstructiveof knowing is mental </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''silence'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">, an attentive </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;">turned towards the central force might use them less truer Consciousness, and less and finally throw aside their use altogetherthe capacity to receive what comes from there. If that happened they might waste by atrophyThe best would be to have this capacity; at least, it should be reduced to an insignificant minimum or even disappear. The central force might substitute for them subtle organs explained that it is the true thing—a sort of a very different character or, if anything material was needed, instruments demonstration—and that would be forms it works not only from the point of view of dynamism or plastic transmitters rather than what we know as organs. This might well must be part learned, of the whole domain of a supreme total transformation knowledge, but also of the body, though this too might not whole domain of what should be final. To envisage such changes is to look far ahead and minds attached done: the capacity to receive the present form exact indication of things may be unable how to give credence to their possibility. No such limits do it; and no such impossibility of any necessary change can be imposed as you go on the evolutionary urge.... What has to be overpassed, whatever has no longer it changes into a use or is degraded, very clear perception of what has become unhelpful or retardingmust be done, can and a precise indication of when it must be discarded and dropped on the waydone. That has been evident in At least the history of the evolution of children, as soon as they have the body from its beginning in elementary forms capacity to its most developed type, think—it starts at the humanage of seven, there but at about fourteen or fifteen it is no reason why this process very clear—the children should not intervene in the transition from the human into the divine body. For be given little indications at the manifestation or building age of seven, a divine body on earth there must be an initial transformationcomplete explanation at fourteen, the appearance of a newhow to do it, a greater and more developed type, not a continuance that it is the only way to be in relation with little modifications the deeper truth of things, and that all the present physical form and its limited possibilitiesrest is a more or less clumsy mental approximation to something that can be known directly."
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother,5 April 1967)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#3333330066cc;">10 July 1957<u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/5-april-1967#p24</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">)<nowiki>----------------------</nowiki></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 11 November 1967)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/11-november-1967#p149</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Yes, there, the morning work, like the work they do there, "Vers la Perfection"... They can very well do that: remain silent, concentrated for a moment, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''silence all that, everything that is noisy inside,'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">like that, and wait. In the morning, they can do that. No, I mean, when you have an hour's class, or three-quarters of an hour's class with... all together with the teacher... you have to keep yourselves busy. It would be amusing if for three-quarters of an hour everyone could stay... (laughter). </span>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">There(The Mother, 11 November 1967)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword. This is the situation. It has grown considerably worse since the last warin/cwm/12/11-november-1967#p154</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000; it grows worse year by year">One thing could be done once, and one finds oneself in such at least once: you set a ridiculous situation subject, like that, unfortunately, as one is at from the end course of one's resourcessubjects, to simplify what has been made so complicatedyou set it and tell them, there is "For a quarter of an idea in the earth-atmosphere—an idea which might be called preposteroushour we shall remain silent, but unhappily it is much worse than preposteroussilent; no noise, it is catastrophic—the idea that if there were no one should make any noise. We shall remain silent for a quarter of an hour. For a great upheavalquarter of an hour try to remain completely silent, still and attentive, perhaps and then we shall see in a quarter of an hour what comes out of it would be better afterwards.... One is so jammed between prohibitions" You can reduce it to five minutes to begin with, impossibilitiesthree minutes, interdictionstwo minutes, rules, the complications it doesn't matter. A quarter of every secondan hour is a lot, but you should do... try that one feels stifled and really gets the admirable idea that if everything were demolished perhaps it would be better afterwards!...see. It is in the airSome of them will start to fidget. And all the governments have put themselves in such impossible conditionsVery few children, perhaps, know how to keep still; or else they have become so tied up that fall asleep—but it seems to them doesn't matter if they will have to break everything to be able to move forwardfall asleep.... (Silence) This is unfortunately a little more than a possibilityYou could try that at least once, it is a very serious threat. see what happens: "Let's see! Who will answer my question after ten minutes' silence? And it is not quite certain that life ten minutes which you will not be made still more impossible because one feels incapable spend trying to get hold of emerging from everything you may know mentally about the chaos—the chaos of complications—in subject, no, no—ten minutes during which humanity has put itself. It is you will be just like the shadow—but unfortunately a very active shadow—of the new hope which has sprung up in the human consciousnessthis, blank, a hope and a need for something more harmonious; and the need becomes so much more acute as lifestill, as it is at present organisedsilent, becomes more and more contrary to it. The two opposites are facing each other with such intensity that one can expect something like an explosionattentive...attentive and silent."</divspan>
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(The Mother,7 August 195711 November 1967)</divspan><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/11-november-1967#p156</u></span>
<div style="color:#000000;">Learn steadiness of character, perseverance. Be worthy of trust so as “Mother is always here amongst us to become one day the true disciple of that great Soulhelp us and guide us."”</div>
[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/mothers-action-in-a-class-of-children-aged-seven-to-nine#p8 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/mothers-action-in-a-class-of-children-aged-seven-to-nine#p8]
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If you want my help, it is not by accepting one principle of action and rejecting another that you can have it, but by concentrating before the class, by establishing silence and peace in your heart (and in your head too, if possible) and by calling my presence with a sincere aspiration that I should be behind all your actions, not in the way you think that I would act (for that can only be an arbitrary opinion and therefore necessarily wrong), but in </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother,'''silence'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#333333000000;">November 1949</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">)and calm and inner spontaneity. This is the only true way of getting out of your difficulty.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/mothers-action-in-a-class-of-children-aged-seven-to-nine#p24</u></span>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">A minimum of </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;">is necessary. I know that the most undisciplined children are usually the most intelligent. But to be tamed they must feel the pressure of an intelligence that is more powerful than their own. And for that, one must be able not to come down to their level, and above all know how to remain unaffected by what they do. In fact, it is a yogic problem.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/mothers-action-in-a-class-of-children-aged-ten-to-eleven#p4 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/mothers-action-in-a-class-of-children-aged-ten-to-eleven#p4] <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is true that the guru himself is subject to the same rule of silence with regard to what concerns him personally. In Nature everything is in movement; thus, whatever does not move forward is bound to fall back. The guru must progress even as his disciples do, although his progress may not be on the same plane. And for him too, to speak about his experiences is not favourable: the greater part of the dynamic force for progress contained in the experience evaporates if it is put into words. But on the other hand, by explaining his experiences to his disciples, he greatly helps their understanding and consequently their progress. It is for him in his wisdom to know to what extent he can and ought to sacrifice the one to the other. It goes without saying that no boasting or vainglory should enter into his account, for the slightest vanity would make him no longer a guru but an imposter.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-four-austerities-and-the-four-liberations#p60</u></span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">And if you do not want your body to fail you, avoid wasting your energies in useless agitation. Whatever you do, do it in a quiet and composed poise. In peace and </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;">is the greatest strength.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/students#p16</u></span> == Resting in Silence == <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">There is nothing wrong in having intervals of passive peace without anything happening—they come naturally in the sadhana as a basis for fresh action when the nature is ready for it. It is only the vital attitude that turns it into a disharmony, because somewhere in its being there is not the assent to or participation in the peace and passivity. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''To be able often to rest, repose in all the being outspread in the silent Brahman is an indispensable thing for the Yogi'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">. But the vital wants always fuss, action, to feel that it is somebody doing something, getting on, having progress, on the move. The counterpart to this rajasic fuss is inertia. If the whole being can widen itself out, rest satisfied in the silence, then progressively inertia fades out and gives place to śama.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/variations-in-the-intensity-of-experience#p32</u></span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The fact is that like all the other parts of the human being, the mind too needs rest and it will not have this rest unless we know how to provide it. The art of resting one's mind is something to be acquired. Changing one's mental activity is certainly one way of resting; but the greatest possible rest is silence. And as far as the mental faculties are concerned a few minutes passed in the calm of silence are a more effective rest than hours of sleep.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/mental-education#p21 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/correctmental-education#p21] <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The rest must not be one which goes down into the inconscience and tamas. The rest must be an ascent into the Light, into perfect Peace, total Silence, a rest which rises up out of the darkness. Then it is true rest, a rest which is an ascent. (The Mother, 31 August 1955)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/31-august-1955#p21</u></span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">To relieve tension, ten minutes of real calm, inner and outer, are more effective than all the remedies in the world. In silence lies the most effective help. (The Mother, 30 January 1939)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/30-judgmentjanuary-1939#p6p8</u></span> <divstyle="color:#000000;">It is very difficult to put one's mind into repose. The majority of men get up very tired, more tired than when they went to sleep. One must learn how to quieten one's mind, make it completely blank, and then when one wakes up, one feels refreshed. One must relax the whole mind in the pure white silence, then one has the least number of dreams. </div> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 22 April 1953)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-april-1953#p5</u></span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In any case one thing you can do in all security is, before going to sleep, to concentrate, relax all tension in the physical being, try... that is, in the body try so that the body lies like a soft rag on the bed, that it is no longer something with twitchings and cramps; to relax it completely as though it were a kind of thing like a rag. And then, the vital: to calm it, calm it as much as you can, make it as quiet, as peaceful as possible. And then the mind also—the mind, try to keep it like that, without any activity. You must put upon the brain the force of great peace, great quietude, of silence if possible, and not follow ideas actively, not make any effort, nothing, nothing; you must relax all movement there too, but relax it in a kind of silence and quietude as great as possible. (The Mother, 2 March 1955)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/2-march-1955#p10</u></span>