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Namah Preparing and Opening the Being to the Higher Force

nothing can be added or subtracted in our facing upwards, and keeping the mirror still,
true beingness, and that worldly wants and quiet and steady (12). It is imperative that
losses are nothing in front of what we have concentrating above the head and stationing
to realise. the consciousness there, as much as possible,
is an integral part of this upliftment. Sri
“In itself this emptiness and quietude, free from Aurobindo elaborates in his Letters on Yoga III
all anxiety or trouble or thought about people or that one must even begin to think and speak
things is not a bad sign or an undesirable state. from above the head, keeping the concentration
It is a state of what the Yogis call udāsīnatā, a still and steady.
separateness from all things and indifference,
an untroubled neutral quietude. In many Talking about the fundamental realisations
Yogas it is considered a very advanced and in this yoga, Sri Aurobindo states:
desirable condition — a state of liberation from
the world, though not yet of realisation of the “1. The psychic change so that a complete devotion
Divine, — but they consider it a necessary can be the main motive of the heart and the
passage to the realisation. In our Yoga it is only ruler of thought, life and action in constant
a passage through which one arrives at a more union with the Mother and in her Presence.
positive spiritual calm consciousness in which 2. The descent of the Peace, Power, Light etc. of
all experiences and all realisations become the Higher Consciousness through the head
possible. The feeling of dullness is due probably and heart into the whole being, occupying
not to this state which is in itself a condition of the very cells of the body.
ease and release, but to the depressed condition 3. The perception of the One and Divine infinitely
of the bodily health and strength. That also everywhere, the Mother everywhere and living
is probably the cause why the more positive in that infinite consciousness (13).”
state does not come quickly. The forgetfulness
you speak of comes sometimes in the period
of change, but passes away afterwards; a new
force of memory comes (10).”

Descent from above

So as one is keeping the container empty,
still, steady and ready, in time the descent
may begin to happen. The Mother talks about
keeping an aspiration steady and soaring
upwards and waiting as if in front of a hard Keeping the mind quiet, still and open
lid, but still trying to pierce through it with
steadiness and conviction (11). As one becomes gradually sure of the futility
of remaining immersed in or engaging
At another place She advises us to rise with the thought/feeling stream, one can
above the ordinary thinking mind, placing experience a relative quietude and peace in
our attention above the head, like a mirror the mind. And even when ripples of thoughts

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