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[[File:Image1.png|thumb]] 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  

Stillness If you remain very quiet, even physically, and meditationwhen violence is directed at you, you are able to remain very quiet, it is very silent, very still, well, that has a power not only in meditation that one can reach the Divine consciousness, over you will learn that one can . To remain in contact with the Divine even while playing or doing gymnastics or walking or doing anythinglike a wall, absolutely motionless to wade off attacks.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1408/ascetic22-practicesfebruary-1956?search=physical+immobility#p13p9,p10,p11,p12</ref>

The normal activity of our minds is for the most part a disordered restlessness, full of waste and rapidly tentative expenditure of energy in which only a little is selected for the workings of the self-mastering will.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/hathayoga#p6</ref>Stillness of the mind means, first, the falling to rest of the habitual thought movements, thought formations, thought currents which agitate this mind-substance.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/philosophical-thought-and-yoga#p17</ref>It is the substance of the mental being that is still, so still that nothing disturbs it. If thoughts or activities come, they do not rise at all out of the mind, but they come from outside and cross the mind as a flight of birds crosses the sky in a windless air. It passes, disturbs nothing, leaving no trace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/03/july-25-1962#p115</ref>

If we can pass through these two stages When there is a complete silence in the being, either a stillness of the inner change without whole being arrested or fixed in eithera stillness behind unaffected by surface movements, then we are admitted to can become aware of a greater divine equality which is capable of Self, a spiritual ardour and tranquil passion substance of delightour being, an existence exceeding even the soul individuality, a rapturousspreading itself into universality, surpassing alldependence 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> Peace and stillness are the great remedy for disease.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/peace-and-quiet-faith-understanding and all-possessing equality surrender#p27</ref> Only when the mind is thus entirely still, like clear, motionless and level water, in a perfect purity and peace of the perfected whole being and the soultranscends thought, an intense can the Self which exceeds and even wideness originates all activities and fullness becomings, the Silence from which all words are born, the Absolute of which all relativities are partial reflections manifest itself in the pure essence of its our being embracing all things. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/equality-and-the-annihilationpurified-of-egounderstanding#p10p15</ref>

So the thing A constant aspiration for that [''to be done constantly governed by the Divine''] is to remain very objective within that peace; then you can benefit from the peace without accepting its limits. And, this cannot be done without an uncompromising abolition of the ego-sense at its very basis and source. This, if persistently done, changes in the end the mental outlook on oneself and the whole world and there is first thing—next a kind sort of mental realisation; but afterwards by degrees or perhaps rapidly stillness within and imperatively and almost at the beginning the mental realisation deepens into spiritual experience—a realisation in the very substance of our being.There is no need to struggle, just remain turned upward.One commences with a method, but the work is taken up by a Grace drawing back from above, by a response from That to which one aspires or by an irruption of the infinitudes of the Spirit. Even if a thousand images or outward action into the most violent events pass across it, the calm stillness remains as if the very texture of the mind were and a substance sort of eternal and indestructible peace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-ego#p8 </ref><ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/april-16-1963#p3</ref> ==What Must One keep in Mind?== It is listening expectancy, not, for instance, only by an effort of a sound but for the mind itself to get clear of all intrusive emotion spiritual feeling or passion, to quiet its own characteristic vibrations, to resist the obscuring fumes of a physical inertia which brings about a sleep or a torpor direction of the mind instead of its wakeful silence, that the thing can be done. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/philosophical-thought-and-yoga#p15</ref> ==Challenges Faced== But, even in this repose of all thought movements and all movements of feeling, one sees, when one looks more closely at it, that the mind-substance is still in a constant state of very subtle formless but potentially formative vibration—not at first easily observable, but afterwards quite evident—and consciousness that state of constant vibration may be as harmful to comes through the exact reflection or reception of the descendingpsychic. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2829/philosophical-thought-andbecoming-yoga#p17</ref> =Yogic Understanding of Stillness= ==Ascent== As the mind progresses in purity, capacity of stillness or freedom from absorption in its own limited action, it becomes aware of and is able to reflect, bring into itself or enter into the conscious presence of the Self, the supreme and universal Spirit, and it becomes aware too of grades and powers of the spirit higher than its own highest ranges. It becomes aware of an infinite of the consciousness of being, an infinite ocean of all the power and energy of illimitable consciousness, an infinite ocean of Ananda, of the self-moved delight of existence. That's what it has managed to get: a complete stillness and an INTENSE aspiration. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-divine-shaktiwork#p10p36</ref> ==Descent==

The other is the descent An uncompromising abolition of the peaceego-sense at its very basis and source. This, silenceif persistently done, changes in the end the mental outlook on oneself and the spiritual freedom whole world and there is a kind of mental realisation; but afterwards by degrees or perhaps rapidly and wideness imperatively and almost at the powers of beginning the higher consciousness as they develop mental realisation deepens into spiritual experience—a realisation in the lower down to the most physical very substance of our being. More and even the subconscient.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/ascent-more frequent conditions come of something indefinable and-descent#p16</ref>The higher consciousness in its descent takes several fundamental forms—peaceillimitable, power and strengtha peace, lighta silence, knowledgea joy, Ananda. Usually it is the peace that descends first. This is not a mentalbliss beyond expression, vital or physical peace a sense of the ordinary kindabsolute impersonal Power, but something from above (spiritual)a pure existence, very firm, solid and concrete. It is its concreteness that makes you feel like a still massive block—a mass of the higher pure consciousness in place of the more tenuous substance of the ordinary nature, an all-pervading Presence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/onenessthe-release-from-the-ego#p6p8</ref>

==How Mother Works?=Stillness in Yoga=

And it There are two movements that are necessary—one is the repeated and constant descent ascent through the increasing of the Divine Consciousness peace and silence to its Force that source above the mind,—that is indicated by the means for tendency of the transformation consciousness to rise out of the whole being 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 whole natureother powers of the Higher Consciousness. Once this The other is the descent becomes habitualof the peace, silence, the Divine Force, spiritual freedom and wideness and the Power powers of the Mother begins higher consciousness as they develop into the lower down to work, no longer from above only or from behind the veil, but consciously in the Adhara itself, most physical and deals with its difficulties and possibilities and carries on even the Yogasubconscient. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/theascent-inwardand-movementdescent#p14p16</ref>

==Transformation== And we can say A deep, intense or massive substance of peace and stillness is very commonly the first of its powers that descends and many experience it in that way. At first it comes and stays only during meditation or, without the sense of physical inertness or immobility, a little while longer and afterwards is indeed lost; but if the sadhana follows its normal course, it comes more and more, lasting longer, and in the beginning end an enduring deep peace and inner stillness and release becomes a normal character of the real Transformationconsciousness, all the rest hitherto has been mainly preparation and clearing foundation indeed of difficulties a new consciousness, calm and impediments through all these yearsliberated. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2330/onenessdescent-and-other-kinds-of-experience#p6p7</ref>