Chapter 17Peace · Peace in the Mind, Vital and Physical

Yes, certainly, there is a mental peace, a vital peace, a peace of the physical Nature. It is the peace of a higher consciousness that descends from above.

* The silence and peace are there waiting to manifest. Let the mind and vital give all themselves and they will pour in and reveal themselves.

* There can be peace in the mind even when the vital is not quite at rest or peace in the inner being even if the surface is disturbed. Consciousness cannot feel at rest and free, if there is no peace.

* If you get peace, then to clean the vital becomes easy. If you simply clean and clean and do nothing else, you go very slowly — for the vital gets dirty again and has to be cleaned a hundred times. The peace is something that is clean in itself — so to get it is a positive way of securing your object. To look for dirt only and clean is the negative way.

* When the light and peace are full in the vital and physical consciousness, it is this that remains always as a basis for the right movement of the whole nature.

* It is the same peace [in the physical as in the vital] — but is felt materially in the material substance, concretely in the physical mind and nervous being, as well as psychologically in the mind and vital or subtly in the subtle body.

* I presume that [feeling peace concretely between the lobes of the brain] would mean that the peace had become or was becoming very material and solid and physically tangible — “peace in the cells”. Everything is a “substance” — even peace, consciousness, ananda, — only there are different orders of substance.

* Certainly, peace, purity and silence can be felt in all material things — for the Divine Self is there in all.

* Nature by itself is always full of peace — a peace which is fundamental and even the perturbations of mind and life cannot break.