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Namah Take the Integral Approach

they tend to run rampant. We must be to offer, we know we are treading the right
constantly open to the Light, remember it path. This practice can be done at any time of
and offer ourselves to it. We must surrender the day. It is better not to delineate. It comes
to this Light: it is our very Truth. It is our through effort but with practice the necessity
way of integration. At the very least, there for even effort will eventually desist.
must be the tiniest thread that connects us
to it! If the psychic influence is even faintly Use mantra to reinforce your practice, better
present, our watchfulness will remain intact still japa. It is your own sacred word. For me,
and we will be alive to every movement in Integral Yoga, it is only the Mother’s name.
that rises to the surface. With persistence, japa will build a momentum
of its own. Eventually the effort will diminish
We have but a fraction of a second to respond and merge with the consciousness that you
in an aligned way. We have to keep the poise carry all the time. It should not become
always and be ever-watchful; our consciousness mechanical but a continual, living and loving
cannot go to sleep: invocation. Make the japa a conscious habit
“To be in this state of attentive observation, you and it will over time irrevocably dissolve all
must have, so to say, antennae everywhere, your negative and unconscious habits. Your
which are in constant contact with our true consciousness will be so enriched by it! It
centre of consciousness (1).” acts in a uniquely integral way and works
wonders on the physical consciousness.
As soon as the movement rises to the surface, It can change the most obstinate enclaves
we catch it. We intercept it with our consciousness, of our nature, including even the physical
nothing else. We don’t look for ‘good’ or ‘bad’: mind . It can become an indispensable tool
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that is a mental conception. Everything must pass for our self-integration.
through the filter of this consciousness because
everything is but a mixture. Every grain of The necessity for inner work
our nature can be caught by this filter. There is
nothing innately pure inside us, aside from our What we observe on the surface can easily
very source. It is a never-ending process and be resolved. What lies in the open can be
our work in action. The consciousness imparts transformed. If we are conscious the action
a light; it is imbued with knowledge. It radiates is immediate but there is also a necessity for
the Truth and manifests the ‘true movement’. more detailed inner work, which alone has
It dynamically changes all wrong movements the capacity to unearth the buried patterns that
to right. so impede our being. We need a magnifying
glass to observe what is hidden inside us. We
At the same time, we give it to the Light. We call for a clear channel with which to work
offer it to what we truly are. It is a simultaneous and we find this channel in the body itself.
process; Knowledge and offering arise together There are so many hidden memories that are
and with practice the fusion becomes locked inside the crevices of our own body.
spontaneous. When our knee-jerk reaction is So many traumatic patterns are stagnating

1 “The japa is made precisely to control the physical mind (2).”

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