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elaborates the stuff of detail and erects and rivets the armour of
the structure.

Three Things You Must Have
If you desire this transformation, put yourself in the hands of
the Mother and her Powers without cavil or resistance and let her
do unhindered her work within you. Three things you must have,
consciousness, plasticity, unreserved surrender. For you must be
conscious in your mind and soul and heart and life and the very
cells of your body, aware of the Mother and her Powers and their
working; for although she can and does work in you even in your
obscurity and your unconscious parts and moments, it is not the
same thing as when you are in an awakened and living commu-
nion with her. All your nature must be plastic to her touch, — not
questioning as the self-sufficient ignorant mind questions and
doubts and disputes and is the enemy of its enlightenment and
change; not insisting on its own movements as the vital in man
insists and persistently opposes its refractory desires and ill-will to
every divine influence; not obstructing and entrenched in incapac-
ity, inertia and tamas as man’s physical consciousness obstructs
and clinging to its pleasure in smallness and darkness cries out
against each touch that disturbs its soulless routine or its dull
sloth or its torpid slumber. The unreserved surrender of your inner
and outer being will bring this plasticity into all the parts of your
nature; consciousness will awaken everywhere in you by constant
openness to the Wisdom and Light, the Force, the Harmony and
Beauty, the Perfection that come flowing down from above. Even
the body will awake and unite at last its consciousness subliminal
no longer to the supramental superconscious Force, feel all her
powers permeating from above and below and around it and thrill
to a supreme Love and Ananda.
CWSA 32: 14-25 Sri Aurobindo

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