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— as if the world were within us and not we inside the world or
as if the world were one with us and one with the Divine. It is
the "cosmic consciousness" that comes by this mantra. For our
Yoga this is a beginning only, not the end as it is in the ordinary
Yoga, — a liberation, not the Siddhi.
CWSA 29: 324-25

Verses of the Gita as Japa
Verses of the Gita can be used as japa, if the object is to
realise the Truth that the verses contain in them. If X's father
has taken the salient verses containing the heart of the teach-
ing for that purpose, then it is all right. Everything depends on
the selection of the verses. A coherent summary of the Gita's
teaching cannot easily be put together by putting together
some verses, but that is not necessary for a purpose of this
kind which could only be to put the key truths together — not
for intellectual exposition but for grasping in realisation which
is the object of japa.

CWSA 29: 328

The Power of Japa
Above I do not believe a mantra can change the physical
consciousness. What it does, if it is effective, is to open the
consciousness and to bring into it the power of that which the
Mantra represents.
CWSA 35: 828 Sri Aurobindo

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