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The Value of Mental Preparation for the Practice of the Integral Yoga · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The mind can be a powerful tool for spiritual growth or it can
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  become an obstacle under certain circumstances. many devotees,
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  take the position that aspiration devotion surrender to
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  the Divine is the only way forward for those individuals
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  that may indeed be true. Not everyone is capable of the
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  kind of single focused love and surrender required to tread the
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  path of devotion where the individuality is consumed in the
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  love for and surrender to the Divine others, find that the
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  mind has the most highly developed level of Consciousness
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  manifesting more generally. Provides a tool for focusing,
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  the aspiration concentrating, the force and using its powers
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  of application. In detail to carry the higher
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  force that is in the process of manifesting into the rest of the
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  being At some point regardless of the path, one follows, the
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  questions of action and reaction the vital response to life
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  situations and physical needs and Cravings come into Focus for
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  the seeker. And it is at this stage that a
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  certain amount of mental preparation, can be
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  extraordinarily beneficial. Many people find that they need
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  to rely heavily on the power of the mind to tune, the awareness,
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  and sort out, the distractions, obstructions and opposing forces
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  that are at work to restrict the progress.
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  If you're open do notes, quote at present your experiences are
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  on the mental plane and quote, a disciple asks, what does on the
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  mental plane mean? The mother responds quote.
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  Well, these are experiences concerning thought mental
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  activity. The understanding of things, the
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  observation of things thought, deduction, reasoning.
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  The contact with teaching knowledge.
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  The result of this knowledge on your understanding.
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  All these things, which are purely mental.
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  And in fact, one should always begin with that.
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  If one has vital experiences, for example, Visions certain
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  vital experiences without having a sufficient mental preparation,
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  this may result in destroying one's balance.
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  And in any case, one understands nothing of what has happening.
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  And it is practically useless if not harmful.
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  On the other hand, if to begin with when it's developed, his
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  understanding has studied as understood and knows, the reason
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  for things and the goal of yoga for instance.
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  And if when I studied the methods of obtaining it, indeed
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  the whole mental approach to the subject then when experience
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  comes, one has a chance of being able to understand what it is.
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  Otherwise one understands nothing a sufficient.
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  Mental preparation is needed. If not a complete one, at least
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  a sufficient one, to be able to understand a little, the
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  experiences which come in quote. Reference SRI aurobindo and the
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  mother growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 3 growth of Consciousness basic requisites
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  page 51.