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work much profited those who have tried it; in many cases it has
been harmful. A certain amount of concentration, an inner aspira-
tion in the heart and an opening of the consciousness to the Moth-
er’s presence there and to the descent from above are needed. But
without action, without work the nature does not really change; it
is there and by contact with men that there is the test of the change
in the nature. As for the work one does, there is no higher or lower
work; all work is the same provided it is offered to the Mother and
done for her and in her power.
(CWSA 32: 252)

Repeated Descent Is the Means for the Transformation
There is a feeling of waves surging up, mounting to the head,
which brings an outer unconsciousness and an inner waking. It is
the ascending of the lower consciousness in the Adhara to meet
the greater consciousness above. It is a movement analogous to
that on which so much stress is laid in the Tantrik process, the
awakening of the Kundalini, the Energy coiled up and latent in the
body and its mounting through the spinal cord and the centres
(cakras) and the Brahmarandhra to meet the Divine above. In our
Yoga it is not a specialised process, but a spontaneous uprush of
the whole lower consciousness sometimes in currents or waves,
sometimes in a less concrete motion, and on the other side a de-
scent of the Divine Consciousness and its Force into the body.
This descent is felt as a pouring in of calm and peace, of force
and power, of light, of joy and ecstasy, of wideness and freedom
and knowledge, of a Divine Being or a Presence — sometimes one
of these, sometimes several of them or all together. … It is the
repeated and constant ascent of the lower consciousness that
enables the mind, the vital, the physical to come into touch with
the higher planes up to the supramental and get impregnated
with their light and power and influence. And it is the repeated
and constant descent of the Divine Consciousness and its Force

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