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ning the one great necessity is to get the mind quiet, reject
at the time of meditation all thoughts and movements that
are foreign to the sadhana. In the quiet mind there will be
a progressive preparation for the experience. But you must
not become impatient if all is not done at once; it takes time
to bring entire quiet into the mind; you have to go on till the
consciousness is ready.
CWSA 29: 106 (SABCL 23: 604-05)

A disclosure from within or a descent from above are the
two sovereign ways of the Yoga-siddhi. An effort of the
external surface mind or emotions, a tapasya of some kind
may seem to build up something of these things, but the
results are usually uncertain and fragmentary compared to
the result of the two radical ways. That is why in this Yoga
we insist always on an “opening” — an opening inwards of
the inner mind, vital, physical to the inmost part of us, the
psychic, and an opening upwards to what is above the mind
— as indispensable for the fruits of the sadhana.
CWSA 30: 324 (SABCL 24: 1163-64)

[From a letter to a disciple]:
There has never been here any real surrender, any giv-
ing up of yourself freely and simply into the hands of the
Divine Mother. And yet that is the only way to succeed in
the supramental Yoga. To be a Yogi, a Sannyasi, a Tapaswi
is not the object here. The object is transformation, and
the transformation can only be done by a force infinitely
greater than your own; it can only be done by being truly
like a child in the hands of the Divine Mother.
CWSA 32: 143 (SABCL 25: 129) Sri Aurobindo

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