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The Need of Quietude

There is no possibility of doing this Yoga, if one cannot give himself to the Divine Power
and trust to its workings. If one lives only in the mind and its questioning and ideas, it is
not possible. The test of capacity is to be able to quiet the mind, to feel a greater Divine
Power at work in one, the Power of the Mother, and to be able to trust to it and aid its
workings by the rejection of all that contradicts them in the nature.

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To quiet your mind means to stop thinking about the things that disturb you and let the
peace and power manifest themselves and work. The “living inside” will come of itself in
that case — that is to say, you will feel the inner peace and the consciousness that comes
with it more and more as yourself and all else as something outer and superficial.

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How can the mind find out or decide what is the right thing to do for your sadhana? The
more it is active in that way, the more confusion there will be. In sadhana the mind has
to be quiet, fixed in aspiration towards the Divine — the true experience and change will
come in the quietude of the mind from within and from above.

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It is also a mistake to take quietude for callousness. If you are no longer disturbed by
what people say or do, then that is a great progress. If you have no abhiman against the
Mother, that also is surely very desirable. Abhiman, disturbance etc. may be signs of life,
but of a vital, not of the inner life. They must quiet down and give room for the inner life.

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