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Agni is the will for progress, the flame Will: power of purification that burns up all obstacles and difficultiesconsciousness turned towards effectuation. <ref> https http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1714/15-october-1936will#p2p1 </ref>

Will: power We reserved the word will to express what in the individual consciousness is the expression of an order or impulse coming from the truth of the being, from the truth of consciousness turned towards effectuationthe individual—his true being, his true self, you understand. That we call will. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1408/will12-december-1956#p1 p30 </ref>

Most people always put the little bit of will that's at their disposal at the service of their desires. But will is a force with a power of organisation and it can be put at the service of any purpose whatever. It is something that, when one has will-power, one has to a definite purpose. This is will.<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/24-november-1954#p10 </ref><center>~</center>Power to reject adverse suggestions: the power which comes from the conscious union with the Divine.<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/the-divines-help-to-man#p9 </ref>

ShaktiIn the forehead between the eyes but a little above is the Ajnachakra, the centre of the inner will, Willalso of the inner vision, Power the dynamic mind etc. (This is not the driver of ordinary outer mental will and sight, but something more powerful, belonging to the worlds inner being.) When this centre opens and, whether it be Knowledge-Force or Love-Force or Life-Force or Action-Force or Body-the Forcethere is active, then there is always spiritual in its origin and divine in its native characterthe opening of a greater will, power of decision, formation, effectiveness beyond what the ordinary mind can achieve. <ref> httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2328/the-ascentsystem-of-the-sacrifice-iichakras#p19 p54</ref>

...this inner flame of aspiration is what you call the Divine; this inner flame of aspiration which never dies outShakti, which always burnsWill, burns more and more; what in India Power is called Agni, you know, the will to progress, the power driver of aspiration; this is what you call the Divine. It is an aspect of the Divine, that's trueworlds and, but whether it is not the Divine. It is only one aspectbe Knowledge-Force or Love-Force or Life-Force or Action-Force or Body-Force, that is, a always spiritual in its origin and divine way of beingin its native character.<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0723/16the-ascent-of-the-novembersacrifice-1955ii#p52 p19 </ref>

Most people Agni is the will for progress, the flame of purification that burns up all obstacles and difficulties. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/15-october-1936#p2</ref><center>~</center>...this inner flame of aspiration is what you call the Divine; this inner flame of aspiration which never dies out, which always put burns, burns more and more; what in India is called Agni, you know, the will to progress, the little bit power of aspiration; this is what you call the Divine. It is an aspect of will the Divine, that's at their disposal at true, but it is not the service Divine. It is only one aspect, that is, a divine way of their desiresbeing. <ref>http://incarnateword. But in/cwm/07/16-november-1955#p52 </ref><center>~</center>Man is able to use a reason and will , a self-observing, thinking and all-observing, an intelligently willing mind which is no longer involved in the sense-mind, but acts from above and behind it in its own right, with a force with certain separateness and freedom. He is reflective, has a certain relative freedom of intelligent will. He has liberated in himself and has formed into a separate power the buddhi. But what is this buddhi? From the point of view of organisation and Yogic knowledge we may say that it can be put at is that instrument of the soul, of the inner conscious being in nature, of the service Purusha, by which it comes into some kind of any purpose whateverconscious and ordered possession both of itself and its surroundings. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-intelligence-and-will#p4</ref> ==Divine Will== Divine Will―the will expressing the highest Truth. <ref>https://incarnateword. in/cwm/14/to-will-what-the-divine-wills#p4</ref> ==Universal Will== It is something not thatone is allowed to exercise his will over another, when one has but that there is a universal will and those who are more or less capable of manifesting this force seem to have a stronger will-power. It is like vital force or light or electricity or any other power of nature; some are good channels or instruments for manifesting the power, one has to a definite purposeothers are poor channels. There is no question of morality here. This It is willa fact of nature, a law of the great play.<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0603/2412-novembermay-19541929#p10 p13</ref> ==Will to progress in PhysicalPower of Spirit==

In The central will? It depends on the divine Will.It is the individualised expression of the divine Will; and the divine Will is the body there are invaluable expression of the divine Consciousness seeking to manifest itself, to realise itself. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/8-december-1954#p18,p19 </ref><center>~</center>Prakriti, an inert and unknown treasuresmechanical self-driven operation, inconscient or conscient only by the light of Purusha, elevated by various degrees, vital, mental, supramental, of his soul-illumination of her workings. In If we look at her on her other internal side where she moves nearer to unity with Purusha, she is Maya, will of being and becoming or of cessation from being and becoming with all its cellstheir results, apparent to the consciousness, there is an intensity of lifeinvolution and evolution, existing and non-existing, self-concealment of spirit and self-discovery of spirit. Both are sides of aspirationone and the same thing, Shakti, power of being of the spirit which operates, whether superconsciously or consciously or subconsciously in a seeming inconscience,—in fact all these motions coexist at the same time and in the same soul,—as the spirit's power of knowledge, power of will to progress, which one does not usually even realisepower of process and action, ''jñāna-śakti, icchā-śakti, kriyā-śakti''. By this power the spirit creates all things in itself, hides and discovers all itself in the form and behind the veil of its manifestation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0624/19the-psychology-of-mayself-1954perfection#p42 p6</ref>

==Will to Progress power in Psychic Evolution==

And here [Psychic] Even in the Inconscient there seems to be at least an urge of inherent necessity producing the evolution of forms and in the forms a developing Consciousness, and it may well be held that this urge is the centre evolutionary will of a secret Conscious Being and its push of progressive manifestation the energies evidence of progressan innate intention in the evolution. This is what a teleological element and it is called not irrational to admit it: for the conscious or even the seat inconscient nisus arises from a truth of Agniconscious being that has become dynamic and set out to fulfil itself in an automatic process of material Nature; the teleology, but it the element of purpose in the nisus is the translation of self-operative Truth of Being into terms of self-effective Will-Power of that Being, and, if consciousness is there, such a Will-Power must also be there and the translation is normal and inevitable. Truth of being inevitably fulfilling itself would be the energies fundamental fact of progressthe evolution, but Will and its purpose must be there as part of the will to progressinstrumentation, that are hereas an element in the operative principle.<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0622/24man-marchand-the-1954evolution#p9 p13</ref>

==Universal WillPower of Supramental Being==

It The supramental being sees things from above in large spaces and at the highest from the spaces of the infinite. His view is not limited to the standpoint of the present but can see in the continuities of time or from above time in the indivisibilities of the Spirit. He sees truth in its proper order first in the essence, secondly in the potentialities that one is allowed derive from it and only last in the actualities.The essential truths are to exercise his will over anothersight self-existent, self-seen, not dependent for their proof on this or that actuality; the potential truths are truths of the power of being in itself and in things, but truths of the infinity of force and real apart from their past or present realisation in this or that actuality or the habitual surface forms that there is we take for the whole of Nature; the actualities are only a universal selection from the potential truths he sees, dependent on them, limited and mutable. The tyranny of the present, of the actual, of the immediate range of facts, of the immediate urge and demand of action has no power over his thought and his will and those who are more or less capable of manifesting this force seem he is therefore able to have a stronger larger will-powerfounded on a larger knowledge. It He sees things not as one on the levels surrounded by the jungle of present facts and phenomena but from above, not from outside and judged by their surfaces, but from within and viewed from the truth of their centre; therefore he is nearer the divine omniscience. He wills and acts from a dominating height and with a longer movement in time and a larger range of potencies, therefore he is nearer to the divine omnipotence. His being is like vital force or light or electricity or any other not shut into the succession of the moments, but has the full power of naturethe past and ranges seeingly through the future: not shut in the limiting ego and personal mind, but lives in the freedom of the universal, in God and in all beings and all things; some not in the dull density of the physical mind, but in the light of the self and the infinity of the spirit.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-supramental-thought-and-knowledge#p18 </ref><center>~</center>The Gods, who in their highest secret entity are good channels or instruments for manifesting the powerpowers of this Supermind, born of it, seated in it as in their proper home, others are poor channels. There is no question in their knowledge "truth-conscious" and in their action possessed of morality herethe "seer-will". It Their conscious-force turned towards works and creation is possessed and guided by a fact perfect and direct knowledge of naturethe thing to be done and its essence and its law, —a knowledge which determines a law wholly effective will-power that does not deviate or falter in its process or in its result, but expresses and fulfils spontaneously and inevitably in the act that which has been seen in the vision. Light is here one with Force, the vibrations of knowledge with the rhythm of the great playwill and both are one, perfectly and without seeking, groping or effort, with the assured result. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0321/12the-supermind-mayas-1929creator#p13 p5 </ref>

==Will power to Progress in Different Parts of Supramental the Being==

The essential truths are to his sight self-existent...you see, self-seen, not dependent for their proof on this or that actuality; the potential truths are truths of the power as soon as one feels a wave of being in itself and in thingsphysical disequilibrium, truths of the infinity of force and real apart from their past or present realisation in this or that actuality or the habitual surface forms that we take for the whole of Nature; the actualities are only a selection from the potential truths he seesill health coming, dependent on themwell, limited and mutable. The tyranny of to concentrate in the presentright spirit is to concentrate in an inner calm, of a trust in the actualdivine Grace, of the immediate range of facts, of the immediate urge and demand of action has no power over his thought and his a will to remain in physical equilibrium and he good health. This is therefore able to have the right spirit. In another case, one may feel a larger will-power founded on wave of anger or a larger knowledge. He sees things not as one on the levels surrounded by the jungle fit of present facts and phenomena but temper coming from aboveoutside; then one should withdraw into an inner calm, not a detachment from outside and judged by their surfacessuperficial things, but with a will to express only what comes from within above and viewed from always be submissive to the divine Will. This is the truth of their centre; therefore he right spirit. And in each case it is nearer something like that. Naturally it always comes back to the same thing, that one must remember the divine omniscienceDivine and put oneself at His service and will what He wills.<ref> httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2406/the29-supramental-thought-andseptember-knowledge1954#p18 p7</ref>

===Will power of Spiritto Progress in Physical===

PrakritiIn the body there are invaluable and unknown treasures. In all its cells, there is an inert intensity of life, of aspiration, of the will to progress, which one does not usually even realise. The body-consciousness would have to be completely warped by the action of the mind and mechanical selfvital for it not to have an immediate will to re-driven operationestablish the equilibrium. When this will is not there, inconscient or conscient only it means that the entire body-consciousness has been spoilt by the light intervention of Purushathe mind and vital… The body, elevated by various degreesif left to itself, vitalis remarkable, mentalfor, supramental, of his soulnot only does it aspire for equilibrium and well-illumination being but it is capable of her workingsrestoring the balance. If we look at her on her other internal side where she moves nearer to unity one leaves one's body alone without intervening with Purushaall those thoughts, she is Mayaall the vital reactions, all the depressions, will of being and becoming or of cessation from being also all the so-called knowledge and mental constructions and becoming with all their resultsfears—if one leaves the body to itself, apparent spontaneously it will do what is necessary to set itself right again.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/19-may-1954#p42 </ref><center>~</center>Wake up in yourself a will to conquer. Not a mere will in the mind but a will in the consciousness, very cells of involution and evolution, existing and nonyour body. Without that you can't do anything; you may take a hundred medicines but they won't cure you unless you have a will to overcome the physical illness. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-existing, selfto-concealment of spirit and selfconquer-discovery illness#p1 </ref><center>~</center>Even the best sadhaks have these periods of spirit. Both are sides suspension of one and the same thingsadhana, Shaktiof nothing happening, power of the absence of the urge of the inner being of . It is when some difficulty arises in the spirit which operates, whether superconsciously physical nature that has to be dealt with or consciously or subconsciously in when a pause has to be made for a seeming inconscienceveiled preparation,—in fact all these motions coexist at or for some similar reason. Even when the working of the same time and sadhana is in the same soul,—as mind or vital which are more plastic such periods are frequent—when the spirit's power physical is concerned they must necessarily come and are usually marked not so much by any apparent struggle but by an immobility and an inertia of knowledge, power of will, power of process and action, jñāna-śakti, icchā-śakti, kriyā-śaktithe energies that were at work before. By this power This is very troublesome to the spirit creates all things in itselfmind because it suggests entire cessation, hides incapacity to progress or unfitness. But it is not really so. One must be quiet and discovers all itself in go on opening oneself to the form and behind working or keeping the veil of its manifestationwill to do so—afterwards there will be a greater progress. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2430/variations-in-the-psychologyintensity-of-self-perfectionexperience#p6 p47</ref>

==God’s Willpower=Will to Progress in Vital===

The Godsvital turned completely to the Divine is like a warrior. It has even the appearance of a warrior. The vital is the place of power and it is this power which impels it to fight, which can fight and conquer, who in their highest secret entity are powers and of all things this Supermindis the most difficult, born for it is precisely these very qualities of itfighting which create in the vital the see of revolt, independence, the will to carry out its own will. But if the vital understands and is converted, seated in if it as in their proper homeis truly surrendered to the divine Will, then these fighting capacities are in their knowledge "truthturned against the anti-conscious" divine forces and in against all the darkness which prevents their action possessed of the "seer-will"transformations. Their consciousAnd they are all-force turned towards works powerful and creation is possessed and guided by a perfect and direct knowledge of can conquer the thing to be done and its essence and its law,—a knowledge which determines a wholly effective willadversaries. The anti-power that does not deviate or falter divine forces are in its process or the vital world; from there, naturally, they have spread out into the physical, but their true seat is in its resultthe vital world, but expresses and fulfils spontaneously and inevitably in it is the act that converted vital force which has been seen in the visiontrue power to vanquish them. But of all things this conversion is the most difficult. <ref> httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2106/the-supermind7-asjuly-creator1954#p5 p2 </ref>

===Will power to Progress in Evolution Psychic===

This is a teleological element and it And here [psychic] is not irrational to admit it: for the conscious or even the inconscient nisus arises from a truth of conscious being that has become dynamic and set out to fulfil itself in an automatic process centre of material Nature; the teleology, the element energies of purpose in the nisus progress. This is what is called the translation seat of self-operative Truth of Being into terms of self-effective Will-Power of that BeingAgni, and, if consciousness but it is there, such a Will-Power must also be there and the translation is normal and inevitable. Truth energies of being inevitably fulfilling itself would be the fundamental fact of the evolutionprogress, but Will and its purpose must be there as part of the instrumentationwill to progress, as an element in the operative principlethat are here. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2206/man24-and-themarch-evolution1954#p13 p9 </ref>

And all the impulses, actions, movements arising in the being which are not that, we said were willings. And I told you in fact that without knowing it or at times even knowing it, you are moved by influences coming from outside which enter in without your even being aware of them and arouse in you what you call the will that a certain thing may happen or another may not, etc. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/12-december-1956#p30</ref><center>~</center>There is no such thing as an inert passive will. Will is dynamic in its nature. Even if it does not struggle or endeavour its very presence is dynamic and acts dynamically on the resistance. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/vigilance-resolution-will-and-the-divine-help#p38</ref> ===Not Belonging to YouOwnership of the Will=== The individual being, and particularly the mind in it, have an instinctive repulsion to admitting that it's another force than their own small personal one which does things. There is a kind of instinct which makes you feel absolutely convinced that the effort of aspiration, the will to progress are things belonging to you by your own right and, therefore, that you have all the merit. ... I knew people who had truly made a lot of progress, who were very close to the moment when one emerges into the truth of things, and who were held back simply by this. Because this need to be the source of the action, to have the merit of the effort, this need is so deeply rooted that they cannot take the last step. Sometimes it takes years. If they are told, "No, it isn't you, this energy which is in you, this will which is in you, this knowledge which is in you, all this is the Divine; it is not what you call yourself", this makes them so miserable that they can't do anything any more.<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/9-november-1955#p5</ref>

===Not Effortful=== It is not the right kind of will-power then [''if it increases fatigue'']—probably they use some fighting or effortful will-power instead of the quiet but strong will that calls down the higher consciousness and force. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/vigilance-resolution-will-and-the-divine-help#p44 </ref>

If you want to learn The will is a part of the consciousness and ought to work really well, you must be modest, become aware in human beings the chief agent in controlling the activities of your imperfections and always maintain the will to progressnature.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1731/22vigilance-resolution-will-and-the-aprildivine-1938help#p3 p28</ref>

 …..when …when one wants to understand the deep laws of life, wants to be ready to receive whatever message is sent by the Divine, if one wants to be able to penetrate the secrets of the Manifestation, all this asks for a developed mind, so one studies with that will. But then one no longer needs to make a choice to study, for everything, no matter what, the least little circumstance in life, becomes a teacher who can teach you something, teach you how to think and act. Even the reflections of an ignorant child can help you to understand something you didn't understand before. Your attitude is so different. It is always an attitude which is awaiting a discovery, an opportunity for progress, a rectification of a wrong movement, a step ahead, and so it is like a magnet that attracts from all around you opportunities to make this progress. The least things can teach you how to progress. As you have the consciousness and will to progress, everything becomes an opportunity, and you project this consciousness and will to progress upon all things.And not only is this useful for you, but it is useful for all those around you with whom you have a contact. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/2-june-1954#p17</ref>

===Importance of Will power to Cure=Progress==I can't say that I know of any special device for it[to cure stammering]—people have used various kinds of devices to get over it, but behind them all will-power and a patient discipline of the utterance are indispensable.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p19</ref>

===Will power to ControlIn Education===

Obviously The attitude of the teacher must be one of a layman can't do these thingsconstant will to progress, unless not only in order to know always better what he has wants to teach the students, but above all in order to be a native "psychic" (that living example to show them what they can become.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/correspondence#p231</ref><center>~</center>The possibility and the will to progress. [isthe basic thing to be taught to children]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/conduct#p45 </ref><center>~</center>For the children, occult) faculty and even then he precisely because they are children, it would be best to instil in them the will have to learn conquer the law of future, the thing before he will to always look ahead and to want to move on as swiftly as they can use it at towards... what willbe—but they should not drag with them the burden, the millstone of the whole oppressive weight of the past. It is always possible only when we are very high in consciousness and knowledge that it is good to look behind to find the points where this future begins to use spiritual force or mindshow itself. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/5-april-power or will power or 1967#p14</ref><center>~</center>Undeniably, what most impedes mental progress in children is the constant dispersion of their thoughts. Their thoughts flutter hither and thither like butterflies and they have to make a certain kind of vital energy great effort to produce effects fix them. Yet this capacity is latent in them, for when you succeed in menarousing their interest, things they are capable of a good deal of attention. By his ingenuity, therefore, the educator will gradually help the child to become capable of a sustained effort of attention and happenings; but knowledge a faculty of more and much practice is needed before more complete absorption in the work in hand. All methods that can develop this possibility ceases faculty of attention from games to rewards are good and can all be occasional utilised according to the need and haphazard the circumstances. But it is the psychological action that is most important and can be used quite consciouslythe sovereign method is to arouse in the child an interest in what you want to teach him, a liking for work, at a will or to perfectionprogress. Even then To love to learn is the most precious gift that one can give to have "a control over child: to love to learn always and everywhere, so that all circumstances, all happenings in life may be constantly renewed opportunities for learning more and always more. ... When one has learned to silence the whole material world" is too big a proposition; a local mind at will and partial control 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 more possible oragitated, more widelythought becomes confused and impotent; in an attentive tranquillity, certain kinds of control over matterthe light can manifest itself and open up new horizons to man's capacity.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2812/science-andmental-yogaeducation#p15 p10,p22</ref>

==Importance of Will to Progress in Education and =In Integral Yoga===

The attitude goal of [Integral] Yoga is always hard to reach...and it is only for those who have the call, the capacity, the teacher must be one willingness to face everything and every risk, even the risk of a constant failure, and the will to progresstowards an entire selflessness, not only in order to know always better what he wants to teach the students, but above all in order to be a living example to show them what they can becomedesirelessness and surrender.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1229/correspondencethe-call-and-the-capacity#p228 p2</ref>

The goal of [Integral] Yoga is always hard to reach, but this one is more difficult than any other, and it is only for those who have All the call, psychological qualities can be cultivated as the capacitymuscles are—by regular, the willingness to face everything and every riskdaily exercise. Above all, even turn towards the risk of failure, Divine Force in a sincere aspiration and the implore It to deliver you from your limitations. If you are sincere in your will to progress towards an entire selflessness, desirelessness and surrenderyou are sure to advance.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2916/the-call-and21-thejanuary-capacity1962#p3 </ref>

The possibility As for sadhana what is necessary is to arrive at a certain quiet of the inner mind which makes meditation fruitful or a quietude of the heart which creates the psychic opening. It is only by regular concentration, constant aspiration and the a will to progress. (is purify the mind and heart of the basic thing to things that disquiet and agitate them that this can be taught to children)done. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1230/conductthe-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p45 p49</ref>

Undeniably, what most impedes mental progress in children is But the constant dispersion seeker of their thoughts. Their thoughts flutter hither a greater perfection will draw back from all these dualities, regard them with an equal eye and thither like butterflies arrive through equality at an impartial and they have to make a great effort to fix them. Yet this capacity is latent in themuniversal action of the dynamic Tapas, spiritual force, for when you succeed in arousing their interest, they which his own force and will are capable turned into pure and just instruments of a good deal greater calm secret of attentiondivine working. By his ingenuity, therefore, the educator The ordinary mental standards will gradually help be exceeded on the child to become capable basis of a sustained effort of attention and a faculty of more and more complete absorption in the work in handthis dynamic equality. All methods that can develop this faculty The eye of attention from games to rewards are good and can all be utilised according to the need and the circumstances. But it is the psychological action that is most important and the sovereign method is his will must look beyond to arouse in the child an interest in what you want to teach him, a liking for workpurity of divine being, a motive of divine will-power guided by divine knowledge of which his perfected nature will to progress. To love to learn is be the most precious gift that one can give to a child: to love to learn always and everywhere, so that all circumstancesengine, all happenings in life may be constantly renewed opportunities for learning more and always moreyantra.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1224/mentalthe-perfection-of-educationequality#p10 p9 </ref> =How to Cultivate Will to Progress =

==Negative Effects of lack of How to Cultivate Will powerto Progress : Helpful Practices==

The inertia is there because there was always in your outer being a great force of tamas and it is this that is being used by the resistance''Q. There was also a deficiency of steady will-power in the outer mind which makes it more difficult for the Force to come down than for the Knowledge. When you are entirely open the Force How can act on the sciatica and it lessens or disappears, but with the consciousness blocked by the inertia these difficulties come in the way.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailmentsone increase single-mindedness andwill-other-physical-problems#p28 </ref>power?''

=How ''A:'' Through regular, persevering, obstinate, unflagging exercise—I mean exercise of concentration and will. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/7-april-1965#p2 </ref><center>~</center>''Q. Mother, how can one strengthen one's will?'' ''A:'' Oh, as one strengthen muscles, by a methodical exercise. You take one little thing, something you want to do or don't want to do. Begin with a small thing, not something very essential to the being, but a small detail. And then, if, for instance, it is something you are in the habit of doing, you insist on it with the same regularity, you see, either not to do it or to do it—you insist on it and compel yourself to Cultivate Will do it as you compel yourself to Progress =lift a weight—it's the same thing. You make the same kind of effort, but it is more of an inner effort. And after having taken little things like this—things relatively easy, you know—after taking these and succeeding with them, you can unite with a greater force and try a more complicated experiment. And gradually, if you do this regularly, you will end up by acquiring an independent and very strong will. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/3-november-1954#p16,p17</ref><center>~</center>''Q. How can one become aware of the central will?''

All the psychological qualities can be cultivated as ''A:''Ah, this of course is another side of the muscles are—by regular, daily exerciseproblem. Above First of allone must become aware of what is highest, turn towards the Divine Force in a sincere aspiration most true, most universal and implore It to deliver you from your limitations. If you are sincere eternal in your will to progress, you are sure to advance. <ref>http://incarnatewordone's consciousness.in/cwm/16/21-january-1962#p3 </ref>

==How This is learnt gradually. One learns to cultivate Will discern among one's ordinary, external movements and the different gradations of the movements of one's inner consciousness. And if one continues to Progress : Practices do this with a certain persistence, one realises what it is that will help==puts this highest part of one's being into motion, which represents the ideal of the being. There is no other way. Sometimes this awake through reading something, sometimes through a conversation, sometimes through a more or less dramatic, that is, unexpected event, which gives you a shock, shakes you up, brings you out of your usual little rut. Sometimes when you are in very great danger, suddenly you feel as though you are above yourself and beyond your small habitual weakness, having within you something higher which can hold out against circumstances.

How Such occasions make you enter, first, into contact with that. Afterwards by a methodical discipline you can one increase single-mindedness and will-power?The mother: Through regularmake the contact continuous; but usually this takes time. But first you get it like that, perseveringsuddenly, obstinate, unflagging exercise—I mean exercise of concentration and willfor one reason or another. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1606/78-aprildecember-19651954#p2 p20,p21,p22,p23</ref>

''QTo learn how to will is a very important thing. And to will truly, you must unify your being.MotherIn fact, to be a being, how can one strengthen must first unify oneself. If one is pulled by absolutely opposite tendencies, if one's willspends three-powerfourths of his life without being conscious of himself and the reasons why he does things, is one a real being?One does not exist. One is a mass of influences, movements, forces, actions, reactions, but one is not a being. One begins to become a being when he begins to have a will. And one can''t have a will unless he is unified.

''AAnd when you have a will, you will be able to say, say to the Divine:"I want what You want." But not before that. Because in order to want what the Divine wants, you must have a will, otherwise you can will nothing at all. You would like to. You would like it very much. You would very much like to want what the Divine wants to do. You don''Concentration t possess a will to give to Him and to put at His service. Something like that, gelatinous, like jelly-fish... there... a mass of good wills—and I am considering the better side of things and will can be developed as well as muscles; they grow by regular training forgetting the bad wills—a mass of good wills, half-conscious and exercisefluctuating... <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1206/study29-september-1954#p98 p42,p43</ref>

The only way to do it [''develop the true will-power''] is (1) to become aware of a conscious Force behind that uses the mind etc. (2) to learn by practice to direct that Force towards its object. I do not suppose you will find it easy to do either of these things at once—one must first learn to live more deeply in the inner consciousness than you have done hitherto. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/vigilance-resolution-will-and-the-divine-help#p30 p26</ref>

In To remain quiet within, firm in the forehead between will to go through, refusing to be disturbed or discouraged by difficulties or fluctuations, that is one of the first things to be learned on the eyes but a little above Path. To do otherwise is to encourage the Ajnachakrainstability of consciousness, the centre difficulty of keeping experience of which you complain. It is only if you keep quiet and steady within that the inner willlines of experience can go on with some steadiness—though they are never without periods of interruption and fluctuation; but these, if properly treated, can then become periods of assimilation and exhaustion of difficulty rather than denials of sadhana. A spiritual atmosphere is more important than outer conditions; if one can get that and also create one's own spiritual air to breathe in and live in it, that is the true condition of progress.<ref> https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p28,p29 </ref> ===By Aspiration=== You can at every minute make the inner visiongift of your will in an aspiration—and an aspiration which formulates itself very simply, not just "Lord, Thy will be done", but "Grant that I may do as well as I can the dynamic mind etcbest thing to do. (This " You may not know at every moment what is not the ordinary outer mental best thing to do or how to do it, but you can place your will at the disposal of the Divine to do the best possible, the best thing possible. You will see it will have marvellous results. Do this with consciousness, sincerity and sightperseverance, but and you will find yourself getting along with gigantic strides. It is like that, isn't it? One must do things with all the ardour of one's soul, with all the strength of one's will; do at every moment the best possible, the best thing possible. What others do is not your concern—this is something more powerfulI shall never be able to repeat to you often enough. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/17-february-1951#p20,p21</ref> ===By Concentration in the Heart=== But it is better because if you concentrate there [heart], deeply enough, belonging it is there that you enter into contact with the psychic for the first time; while if you concentrate in the head you have to pass later from the head to the inner heart to be able to identify yourself with the psychic being.) When this centre opens and And if you concentrate by gathering the Force there energies, it is activebetter to gather them here, then there because it is in this centre, in this region of the being that you find the opening of a greater willto progress, power the force of decisionpurification, formation, effectiveness beyond what and the most intense and effective aspiration. The aspiration that comes from the heart is much more effective than that from the ordinary mind can achievehead. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2806/the-system-of3-thenovember-chakras1954#p59 p8 </ref>

===By Concentration in the HeartSurrender=== ''Q. But how can one do this [surrender] before the union has been effected?'' ''A:'' You have a will and you can offer that will. Take the example of becoming conscious of your nights. If you take the attitude of passive surrender, you would say, “When it is the Divine Will that I should become conscious, then I shall become conscious.” On the other hand, if you offer your will to the Divine, you begin to will, you say, “I will become conscious of my nights.” You have the will that it should be done; you do not sit down idle and wait. The surrender comes in when you take the attitude that says, “I give my will to the Divine. I intensely want to become conscious of my nights, I have not the knowledge, let the Divine Will work it out for me.” Your will must continue to act steadily, not in the way of choosing a particular action or demanding a particular object, but as an ardent aspiration concentrated upon the end to be achieved. This is the first step. If you are vigilant, if your attention is alert, you will certainly receive something in the form of an inspiration of what is to be done and that you must forthwith proceed to do. Only, you must remember that to surrender is to accept whatever is the result of your action, though the result may be quite different from what you expect. On the other hand, if your surrender is passive, you will do nothing and try nothing; you will simply go to sleep and wait for a miracle.Now to know whether your will or desire is in agreement with the Divine Will or not, you must look and see whether you have an answer or have no answer, whether you feel supported or contradicted, not by the mind or the vital or the body, but by that something which is always there deep in the inner being, in your heart.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/21-april-1929#p23,p24,p25</ref><center>~</center>''Q. Should not one offer all one's willed actions to the Divine? That is, first do the willed actions and then offer them?'' ''A:'' Perhaps you could first silence your will and wait for the inner voice before acting! That would be wiser. You see, we have already found many ways of offering our will to the Divine: first, not to will any longer! Second, do what everybody wants except oneself! Third, want no matter what and do no matter what, then, afterwards, offer to the Divine what one has done!

But one can also formulate to oneself one's will and try to pass it before the screen of one's higher ideal, and see what it looks like in front of this ideal, whether it cuts a fine figure or not. If it vacillates, you may be sure there is better because if you concentrate something there [heart]to check up. If, deeply enoughon the other hand, it passes very quietly and without protest, you may risk doing what you wanted and see the result. But here too we are before a very difficult problem.... Those who wish to remain in an inner peace say that everything that happens is there that you enter into contact with the psychic will of God—this is very convenient for being quiet, it is the first timebest way, there is no better; while if there is a better way, it is much more difficult. So, if your will is contradicted, you concentrate in say it is the head will of God; you are quiet, you have to pass later done what you could and the result is different from the head to the heart to be able to identify yourself with the psychic being. And if what you concentrate by gathering the energiesexpected, and you are in peace. (Note that this is not very easy; it is better to gather them hereso far quite good, because but this is not all.) But it may also be quite possible that your will was contradicted by circumstances and yet it was right. Then the solution is in this centremuch more difficult. First, how to know that it was right?... If you are quite impartial, quiet, peaceful, and as little egoistic as possible, if you look straight in this region the face at what has happened and see a sort of contradiction, the being impression that a light has gone out and you find are in the presence of a falsehood, you remain quite calm, but you see and understand that your will to progresshas been contradicted for some unknown reason, though in itself it was not false, that what you had seen was the force truth but it did not manifest itself for some reason or other. So you must start on the adventure of purificationdiscovering the reason why your truth did not manifest itself. This is a problem a little more difficult... but if you expand your vision sufficiently, both in height and wideness, you can immediately see the consequences your will would have had if it had been realised, and the most intense consequences of what would have happened; and if you fling your view far enough, you will be able to see that your will, however true it was, was a partial truth—it was not a collective, general truth, and effective aspiration. The aspiration still less a universal one—and, consequently, if this truth had been realised at that comes from moment, it would have dislocated a certain ensemble and many things which form a part of the heart divine Work (for everything, in fact, is much more effective than that from a part of the divine Work, the entire creation, the entire universe): one part of the headwhole would have been left behind. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0604/317-novemberfebruary-19541951#p8 p10,p11,p12,p13</ref>

It is a recognised fact that in order to progress rapidly, one must not be afraid of difficulties; on the contrary, by choosing to do the difficult thing at every opportunity, one increases the will-power and strengthens the nerves. Now, it is much more difficult to lead a life of moderation and balance, in equanimity and serenity, than to try to contend with over-indulgence in pleasure and the obscuration it entails, by over-indulgence in asceticism and the disintegration it causes. It is much more difficult to achieve the harmonious and progressive development of one's physical being in calm and simplicity than to ill-treat it to the point of annihilation. It is much more difficult to live soberly and with- out desire than to deprive the body of its indispensable nourishment and cleanliness and boast proudly of one's abstinence. It is much more difficult to avoid or to surmount and conquer illness by an inner and outer harmony, purity and balance, than to disregard and ignore it and leave it free to do its work of destruction. And the most difficult thing of all is to maintain the consciousness constantly at the height of its capacity, never allowing the body to act under the influence of a lower impulse. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-four-austerities-and-the-four-liberations# p4</ref><center>~</center>When ...when you live in an ordinary consciousness, and to the extent you remain on a certain plane which is a combination of the most material mind, vital, physical, that is, the ordinary plane of life, you are subject to the determinism of this plane and it is this subjection to the determinism of this plane which puts you exactly in these conditions, for you have deep within you something which aspires for another life but doesn't yet know how to live that other life, and which pushes from inside in order to get the conditions necessary for this other life. These are inner conditions, they are not outer conditions. But this takes its support on outside obstacles in order to strengthen itself in its will to progress; and so, if you look at it from within, you can even say that it is you yourself who create the difficulties to help you to go forward.

And yet, consciousness has been given to man so that he can progress, can discover what he doesn’t know, develop into what he has not yet become; and so it may be said that there is a higher state than that of an immobile and static peace: it is a trust total enough for one to keep the will to progress, to preserve the effort for progress while ridding it of all anxiety, all care for results and consequences. This is one step ahead of the methods which may be called “quietist”, which are founded on the rejection of all activity and a plunging into an immobility and inner silence, which forsake all life because it has been suddenly felt that without peace one can’t have any inner ealization realization and, quite naturally, one thought that one couldn’t have peace so long as one was living in outer conditions, in the state of anxiety in which problems are set and cannot be solved, for one does not have the knowledge to do so.

==Common Errors (Obstacles in developing Developing Will power)==

That [''the idea that one lacks will-power''] is the suggestion that has been enforced on you by the physical inertia. It has covered up your will and persuaded you that there is no will left and no possibility of any will.

<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-four-austerities-and-the-four-liberations#p16 p15 </ref>