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Or you can concentrate to call down from above you (where it al-
ways is) first her calm and peace, then her power and light and her
ananda. It is always there above the head — but superconscient to
the human mind — by aspiration and concentration it can become
conscient to it and the adhar can open to it so that it descends
and enters into mind, life and body.
(CWSA 32: 155)

It [peace] has to be brought down to the heart and navel first.
That gives it a certain kind of inner stability — though not ab-
solute. There is no method other than aspiration, a strong quiet
will and a rejection of all that is not turned towards the Divine in
those parts into which you call the peace — here the emotional
and higher vital.
(CWSA 30: 452) Sri Aurobindo

What usually comes is a descent of the Divine Power to work
upon the nature and prepare it for the Divine Presence in the

heart. There is much in human nature that has to be changed
before it can hold what descends — incapacity and limitation of
the mind, insufficient purity in the heart and elsewhere, restless-
ness etc. To contain the descent a quiet mind and pure heart are
needed. That is why there is the restlessness and sense of inca-
pacity in her. That is a quite common experience. If she wants
to go farther, she must aspire for calm, peace, purity, etc. in the

mental and emotional being and allow what is descending to
establish it in her.
(CWSA 30: 487–88) Sri Aurobindo

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