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the heart centre, if one can do it, is the more desirable.

The other side of discipline is with regard to the activities of
the nature, of the mind, of the life-self or vital, of the physical
being. Here the principle is to accord the nature with the inner
realisation so that one may not be divided into two discordant
parts. There are here several disciplines or processes possible.
One is to offer all the activities to the Divine and call for the inner
guidance and the taking up of one’s nature by a Higher Power. If
there is the inward soul-opening, if the psychic being comes for-
ward, then there is no great difficulty — there comes with it a
psychic discrimination, a constant intimation, finally a governance
which discloses and quietly and patiently removes all imperfec-
tions, brings the right mental and vital movements and reshapes
the physical consciousness also. Another method is to stand back
detached from the movements of the mind, life, physical being,
to regard their activities as only a habitual formation of general
Nature in the individual imposed on us by past workings, not as
any part of our real being; in proportion as one succeeds in this,
becomes detached, sees mind and its activities as not oneself, life
and its activities as not oneself, the body and its activities as not
oneself, one becomes aware of an inner Being within us — inner
mental, inner vital, inner physical — silent, calm, unbound, unat-
tached which reflects the true Self above and can be its direct
representative; from this inner silent Being proceeds a rejection
of all that is to be rejected, an acceptance only of what can be
kept and transformed, an inmost Will to perfection or a call to the
Divine Power to do at each step what is necessary for the change
of the Nature. It can also open mind, life and body to the inmost
psychic entity and its guiding influence or its direct guidance. In
most cases these two methods emerge and work together and
finally fuse into one. But one can begin with either, the one that

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