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Stillness and Immobility
''The ideal condition for progress.''
''The ideal condition for progress.''
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Silence is the condition of the being when it listens to the Divine.
 
THE MOTHER
 
In silence lies the greatest receptivity. And in an immobile silence the vastest action is done. Let us learn to be silent so that the Lord may make use of us.
 
THE MOTHER
 
With words one can at times understand, but only in silence one knows.
 
THE MOTHER
<center>“ O Savitri, from thy hidden soul we come….
Follow the world’s winding highway to its source:
There in the silence few have ever reached,
Thou shalt see the Fire burning on the bare stone
And the deep cavern of thy secret soul.”
---Savitri 7.3.8</center>
=What is Stillness?=
==Stillness in the Mental Being==
The stillness of the mind means, first, the falling to rest of the habitual thought movements, thought formations, thought currents which agitate this mind-substance. That repose, vacancy of movement, is for many a sufficient mental silence.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/philosophical-thought-and-yoga#p17</ref>
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<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/23-december-1950#p4</ref>
=What Stillness means Means at a Yogic Level=
==How it is in the Mental Being?==
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Always what your inner being has asked is Love, Bhakti, Ananda and whenever it comes to the surface it is, even if only in a first elementary form, the divine love which it brings with it. A basis of deep and intense calm and stillness, a great intensity of emotion and Bhakti, an inrush of Ananda, this is in these moments your repeated experience.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p34</ref>
=The Mother’s Own Experiences=
That is to say, [when there is sometimes stillness and sometimes mechanical thoughts] the Power is still working on the physical consciousness (the mechanical mind and the subconscient) to bring stillness there. Sometimes the stillness comes but not complete, sometimes the mechanical mind reasserts itself. This oscillation usually takes place in a movement of the kind. Even if there is a sudden or rapid transforming shock or downrush, there has to be some working out of this kind afterwards—that at least has always been my experience. For most, however, there comes, first, this slow preparatory process.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/descent-and-the-lower-nature#p30</ref>
==Supramental Love==
My impression was that as a result of this the physical cells were going to develop materially and be transformed (I think it will happen—I had a sort of assurance that it will). Because now, as I'm talking to you, I'm looking at it and I see—the effect is still there: no longer with the same overwhelming power, but the effect is there and it gives a sort of... (it can't be compared to anything physical)... a sort of warmth; it's not heat, but warmth. Everything is seized by it, both ears (Mother touches her head), everything—here, there, all around! Tremendous. And this immobility! As soon as one stops, it is immor... (Mother cuts off her word), it is eternity.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/october-15-1961#p17</ref>
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When there is a complete silence in the being, either a stillness of the whole being or a stillness behind unaffected by surface movements, then we can become aware of a Self, a spiritual substance of our being, an existence exceeding even the soul individuality, spreading itself into universality, surpassing all dependence on any natural form or action, extending itself upward into a transcendence of which the limits are not visible. It is these liberations of the spiritual part in us which are the decisive steps of the spiritual evolution in Nature.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-evolution-of-the-spiritual-man#p6</ref>
=Transformation=