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and fatigue. If you can remember to let your mind work only
when its action is needed, the strain will lessen and disappear.
This is indeed the transitional movement before the supramen-
tal working takes possession of the physical mind and brings
into it the spontaneous action of the Light.
CWSA 29: 287

Dealing with Physical Things
Material things are not to be despised — without them
there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Physical things have a life and value of their own which does not
depend upon their price. To respect physical things and make
a careful and scrupulous use of them is a part of the Yoga, for
without that the mastery over matter cannot come.
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What you feel about physical things is true — there is a con-
sciousness in them, a life which is not the life and conscious-
ness of man and animal which we know, but still secret and
real. That is why we must have a respect for physical things and
use them rightly, not misuse and waste, ill-treat or handle with
a careless roughness. This feeling of all being conscious or alive
comes when our own physical consciousness — and not the
mind only — awakes out of its obscurity and becomes aware of
the One in all things, the Divine everywhere.
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Any activity can be taken as part of the sadhana if it is offered
to the Divine or done with the consciousness or faith that it is
done by the Divine Power. That is the important point.
CWSA 29: 287-90 Sri Aurobindo

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