Peace and Calm Workshop

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Workshop 3 - March 4th, 2001

Keep the quietude and do not mind if it for a time an empty quietude; the consciousness is often like a vessel which has to be emptied of its mixed or undesirable contents; it has to be kept vacant for a while till it can be filled with things new and true, right and pure. The one thing to be avoided is the refilling of the cup with the old turbid contents. Meanwhile wait, open yourself upwards, call very quietly and steadily, not with a too restless eagerness, for the peace to come into the silence and, once the peace is there, for the joy and the presence.

(The Foundation of Sadhana, Letters on Yoga)

- Sri Aurobindo

SABCL, Vol 23, p640

First aspire and pray to the Mother for quiet in the mind, purity, calm and peace, an awakened consciousness, intensity of devotion, strength and spiritual capacity to face all inner and outer difficulties and go through to the end of the yoga. If the consciousness awakens and there is devotion and intensity of aspiration, it will be possible for the mind, provided it learns quietude and peace, to grow in knowledge.

(The Foundation of Sadhana, Letters on Yoga)

- Sri Aurobindo

SABCL, Vol 23, p640-641

It is not possible to make a foundation in yoga if the mind is restless. The first thing needed is quiet in the mind. Also to merge the personal consciousness is not the first aim of the yoga: the first aim is to open it to a higher spiritual consciousness and for this also a quiet mind is the first need.

(The Foundation of Sadhana, Letters on Yoga)

- Sri Aurobindo

SABCL, Vol.23, p635

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