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Namah What Resonates with You?

the process of purification. Stilling the
mind is a very challenging process, so it
is hardly surprising that most society live
in a mental chaos. What it gives out and
receives is largely a stew.

There are many ways to quieten the mind. The
Mother often recommends just concentrating
and dwelling within the heart. There is no
better base than that. We can also learn, as
Sri Aurobindo advocates in his Letters on Yoga
(1), to dissociate ourselves from the “factory
of thoughts”. Usually, we identify with them
so much they completely overwhelm us. If
we find that we are not experiencing clarity
and stillness outside, we have to look here
first.

It helps to create a distinction within our
mind. There is the “active part”, which
never stops churning and regurgitating
meaningless thoughts. We must detach from
that and start to identify with the “quiet,
Mental resonance masterful part”, which sits calmly in the
background. Here, there is a sublime stillness
We can start with the mind. It is our present waiting in the wings. This part is under the
determinism. We start there because the psychic influence. It’s not so prominent and
mind can become a glaring and prominent intrusive but do you have any inkling of its
obstacle to our progress. Is your mind presence already? Look closely inside to see
continually projecting from the surface, if you can sense it. If the seeking becomes
repeatedly engaging in superficialities fruitless. call the Mother and entreat Her to
and matters of no real consequence? Is your help you access it.
preoccupation habitually taking you there? If this
instrument is confused and blurred, there is little Work on separating these two parts. Ask
prospect of addressing and aligning the for this serene stillness to always intervene
lower sides of our nature. Once clarified, it in your life. This can be an important first
can exert a helpful influence down below. step in organising and purifying the mind.
At the very least, it will not stand in harm’s If you give yourself to this part, it can
way. It will leave a small space for the psychic realign the whole structure of your thinking
influence to do its work. So, with a clear and process. It will start to sift through the
purified mind, we are more able to proceed “factory of thoughts” and do the necessary
downwards and open everything else to work of “observing them, judging, rejecting,

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