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may be engaged in doing. Whether you sit down to meditation
or go about and do things and work, what is required of you is
consciousness; that is the one need, — to be constantly conscious
of the Divine.

But is not sitting down to meditation an indispensable discipline,
and does it not give a more intense and concentrated union with
the Divine?

That may be. But a discipline in itself is not what we are seek-
ing. What we are seeking is to be concentrated on the Divine in
all that we do, at all times, in all our acts and in every movement.
There are some here who have been told to meditate; but also
there are others who have not been asked to do any meditation at
all. But it must not be thought that they are not progressing. They
too follow a discipline, but it is of another nature. To work, to act
with devotion and an inner consecration is also a spiritual disci-
pline. The final aim is to be in constant union with the Divine, not

only in meditation but in all circumstances and in all the active life.
CWM 3: 20-21 The Mother

When you come to the Yoga, you must be ready to have all
your mental buildings and all your vital scaff oldings shattered
to pieces. You must be prepared to be suspended in the air with
nothing to support you except your faith. You will have to for-
get your past self and its clingings altogether, to pluck it out of
your consciousness and be born anew, free from every kind of
bondage. Think not of what you were, but of what you aspire
to be; be altogether in what you want to realise. Turn from your
dead past and look straight towards the future. Your religion,
country, family lie there; it is the DIVINE.
CWM 3:83-84 The Mother

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