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Attunement of the outer nature*

Sweet Mother, how can we create “the attunement of the nature with the working of the Divine
Light and Power”?

How can you do it? By trying.

First you must be conscious of the kind of attunement you want to realise. You must
become aware of the points where this harmony does not exist; you must feel them
and understand the contradiction between the inner consciousness and certain outer
movements. You must become conscious of this first, and once you are conscious of it, you
try to adapt the outer action, outer movements to the inner ideal. But first of all you must
become aware of the disharmony. For there are many people who think that everything is
going well; and if they are told, “No, your outer nature is in contradiction with your inner
aspiration”, they protest. They are not aware. Therefore, the first step is to become aware,
to become conscious of what is not in tune. To begin with, most people will say, “What
is this inner consciousness you are telling me about? I don’t know it!” So, obviously, they
cannot establish any harmony if they are not even conscious of something within which
is higher than their ordinary consciousness. This means that many preparatory stages are
needed, preparatory states of awareness, before being ready for this harmonisation.

You must first of all know what the inner aim of the being is, the aspiration, the descending
force, what receives it — everything must become conscious. And then, afterwards, you
must look at the outer movements in the light of this inner consciousness and see what
is in tune and what is not. And then, when you have seen what does not harmonise, you
must gather the will and aspiration to change it and begin with the easiest part. You should
not begin with the most difficult thing, you should begin with the easiest, the one you
understand best, most easily, the disharmony which seems most evident to you. Then
from there, gradually, you will go to the more difficult and more central things...

— The Mother *

*Heading provided by the Editor

*The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother, Volume 7. Cent ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
Ashram Trust; 1979, p. 1.

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