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But Sri Aurobindo has said … that surrender is the first and absolute condition for doing the yoga. So, if we follow what he has said, this is not just one of the necessary qualities: it is the first attitude indispensable for beginning the yoga. If one has not decided to make a total surrender, one cannot begin.

But for this surrender to be total, all these qualities are necessary. [Sincerity or Transparency; Faith or Trust (Trust in the Divine, naturally); Devotion or Gratitude; Courage or Aspiration; Endurance or Perseverance.] <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/25-january-1956#p61</ref>

Fundamentally, whatever be the path one follows—whether the path of surrender, consecration, knowledge—if one wants it to be perfect, it is always equally difficult, and there is but one way, one only, I know of only one: that is perfect sincerity, but perfect sincerity!

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/12-may-1954#p34</ref>

==How to Surrender the Mental?==