Chapter 13The Nature of the Vital · Peace and Quiet in the Vital

What you have to aspire for and bring down in you is the peace of the Mother’s consciousness. Peace, calm, equanimity in the emotional being and the rest of the vital especially — it is that which will purify the emotions and deliver the vital.

* If you bring down the peace into your vital, it will be liberated — for even if wrong movements come, it will be able to reject them.

* A quiet and even basis [for sadhana] means a condition of the sadhana in which there is no tossing about between eager bursts of experience and a depressed inert or half inert condition, but whether in progress or in difficulty there is always a quiet consciousness behind turned in confidence and faith towards the Divine.

* This quietude is not tamas at all — it is a quiescence of the ordinary rajasic movements of the nature (desire, grief, attachment and other reactions), which is very necessary in order that peace may come. It is what we may call the quiet vital — and it is in the quiet mind and the quiet vital that the true spiritual consciousness can most easily come.

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