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Ascent and Descent

Our Yoga is a double movement of ascent and descent; one rises
to higher and higher levels of consciousness, but at the same time
one brings down their power not only into mind and life, but in the
end even into the body.
(CWSA 29: 376)

The lower consciousness ascends towards the higher to join it —
the higher descends into the lower to transform it. It is the rule of
the consciousness in this sadhana.
(CWSA 30: 417)

In this Yoga the whole principle is to open oneself to the Divine
Influence. It is there above you and, if you can once become con-
scious of it, you have then to call it down into you. It descends
into the mind and into the body as Peace, as a Light, as a Force
that works, as the Presence of the Divine with or without form, as
Ananda. Before one has this consciousness, one has to have faith
and aspire for the opening. Aspiration, call, prayer are forms of one
and the same thing and are all effective; you can take the form
that comes to you or is easiest to you.
(CWSA 29: 106)

The power above the head
The Power above the head is of course the Mother’s — it is
the power of the Higher Consciousness which is preparing its way
of descent. This Higher Consciousness carrying in it a sense of
wide and boundless existence, light, power, peace, Ananda etc. is
always there above the head and when something of the spiritual
Force comes down to work upon the nature, it is from there that
it comes. But nothing like the full descent of the peace, bliss etc.
can come so long as the being is not ready.
(CWSA 30: 458)

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