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== 5. How to Achieve/Practice Mental Silence? ==

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/silence#p15</ref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If you try to silence your mind directly, it is a hard job, almost impossible; for the most material part of the mind never stops its activity—it goes on and on like a non-stop recording machine. It repeats all that it records and unless there is a switch to stop it, it continues and continues indefinitely. If, on the other hand, you manage to shift your consciousness into a higher domain, above the ordinary mind, this opening to the Light calms the mind, it does not stir any longer, and the </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''mental'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''silence'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">so obtained can become constant. Once you enter into this domain, you may very well never come out of it—the external mind always remains calm.</span>

<div style="color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p22</ref></div>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">And if one carries this a little further, one should never think and plan beforehand what one ought to say or write. One should simply be able to silence one's mind, to turn it like a receptacle towards the higher Consciousness and express as it receives it, in </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''mental'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''silence'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">, what comes from above. That would be true spontaneity.</span>

<div style="color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/29-august-1956#p7</ref></div>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Take one of Sri Aurobindo's books. Read a sentence or two. Then remain silent and concentrated to understand the deeper meaning. Try to concentrate deeply enough to obtain </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''mental'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''silence'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and begin again daily until you obtain a result.</span>

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/26-may-1929#p21</ref>

<div style="color:#000000;">What is the meaning of “the mental witness”?</div>