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Namah Vol. 31, Issue 3, 15th October 2023

older movements that show up from time of the Yoga. You and some others do not find
to time in order to have their chance, as a satisfaction in it because you have not overcome
matter of habit. the vital mind which wants always some kind
of activity, change, doing something, making
“There is a certain truth in what you say about something happen. The eternal immobility of
the empty cup — a certain emptying of the the silent Brahman is a thing it does not relish.
consciousness of old things is necessary before So when emptiness comes, it finds it dull, inert,
anything positive can settle itself. It is what monotonous (7).”
is happening in your physical consciousness, “The physical does not get tired of the blankness.
the old movements are being emptied out It may feel tamasic because of its own tendency
and you fall quiet, but they press in again to inertia, but it does not usually object to
and the cup has to be repeatedly emptied. If voidness. Of course it may be the vital physical
there is a firm and persistent rejection, then — you have only to reject it as a remnant of the
this repeated return of these old movements old movements (8).”
will cease to be so persistent; the periods of
quiet and its intensity will increase until the Keeping oneself still and steady, like an
peace and quietude can be established and open receptacle, ever persevering, ready to
permanent (6).” receive, is a necessary cultivation to develop.
Now we have a lifetime of employment, but
whether we are standing in a queue, waiting,
or walking, driving, or anything, we can
spend some time consciously to be open to
the higher force, to be still and steady and
always receptive.

“When you feel empty like that, you have
only to remain very still and open yourself
to receive the Light and Force. Emptiness is a
bad condition only when it is dull or when you
receive into it wrong movements. But often one
has to be empty in order to receive what is to
be given (9).”

This state of a disinterested quietude is an
It is the vital in us that doesn’t cherish this important movement in saadhanaa, when it is
emptiness in the beginning, and wants to relatively easier now to have concentration,
just fill up the space with older patterns because of loss of interest in outer ordinary
and activities, for because of older habitual movements. In fact it becomes an aid in
patterns it finds the emptiness a bit dull and concentration above the head or at any other
boring. centre, when there is a relatively good degree
of purification in the being. And purification
“Silence of the being is the first natural aim in understanding also, in that one knows that

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