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and by the workings of her force transform the consciousness;
one can concentrate also in the head or between the eyebrows,

but for many this is a too difficult opening. When the mind falls
quiet and the concentration becomes strong and the aspira-
tion intense, then there is a beginning of experience. The more
the faith, the more rapid the result is likely to be. For the rest
one must not depend on one’s own efforts only, but succeed in

establishing a contact with the Divine and a receptivity to the
Mother’s Power and Presence.
CWSA 29: 106-07 Sri Aurobindo

Dangers of Yoga
Yoga is not more dangerous to the people of the West than
to those of the East. Everything depends upon the spirit with
which you approach it. Yoga does become dangerous if you
want it for your own sake, to serve a personal end. It is not dan-
gerous, on the contrary, it is safety and security itself, if you go
to it with a sense of its sacredness, always remembering that
the aim is to find the Divine.

Dangers and difficulties come in when people take up Yoga

not for the sake of the Divine, but because they want to acquire
power and under the guise of Yoga seek to satisfy some ambi-
tion. If you cannot get rid of ambition, do not touch the thing.
It is fire that burns…..

There is another danger; it is in connection with the sex

impulses. Yoga in its process of purification will lay bare and
throw up all hidden impulses and desires in you. And you must
learn not to hide things nor leave them aside, you have to face

them and conquer and remould them. The first effect of Yoga,
however, is to take away the mental control, and the hungers
that lie dormant are suddenly set free, they rush up and invade
the being. So long as this mental control has not been replaced
by the Divine control, there is a period of transition when your

All India Magazine, November 2020