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very much interested: it increases its activity. You must not listen, must not pay attention.
If it makes too much noise, you must tell it: “Be still! Now then, silence, keep quiet!” without
making a lot of noise yourself, you understand? You must not imitate those people who
begin shouting: “Keep quiet”, and make such a noise themselves that they are even noisier
than the others!
— The Mother*
* The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother, Volume 6. Cent ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
Ashram Trust; 1979, pp. 139-41.
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