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A Simple Method to Achieve Peace and Silence in the Mind · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There are a number of proven methods for achieving peace and
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  silence in the mind, some are more arduous than others.
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  The more one works at it. The more inward pressure want to
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  search to try to achieve this status, the greater the
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  intrusions that forced themselves on the mind.
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  This is the result of a rajasic effort filled with desire for a
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  particular result. The mother suggest the method
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  that releases this pressure and allows peace and quiet in the
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  mind to come over time with repeated effort but without
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  being filled with desire and any aggressive method, peace is the
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  method and peace is the result. A disciple asks, how can we
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  establish a settled peace and silence in the mind?
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  The mother writes quote, first of all you must want it and then
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  you must try and must persevere. Continue trying What?
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  I have just told you is a very good means yet.
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  There are others. Also, you sit quietly to begin
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  with and then instead of thinking of 50 things, you begin
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  saying to yourself. Peace.
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  Peace, peace, peace. Peace.
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  Calm peace. You imagine peace and calm.
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  You Aspire ask that. It may come peace, peace, calm.
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  And then when something comes and touches you and acts say
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  quietly like this peace. Peace.
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  Peace. Do not look at the thoughts.
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  Do not listen to the thoughts. You understand?
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  You must not pay attention to everything that comes You know,
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  when someone bothers you a great deal and you want to get rid of
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  him you don't listen to him. Do you good?
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  You turn your head away gesture and think of something else.
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  Will you must do that? When thoughts come?
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  You must not. Look at them must not.
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  Listen to them. Must not pay any attention at
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  all. You must behave as though they
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  did not exist. You see?
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  And then repeat all the time. Like a con kind of how shall I
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  put it as an idiot? Does who repeats the same thing
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  always? Well you must do the same thing.
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  You must repeat. Peace.
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  Peace. Peace.
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  So you try this for a few minutes and then do what you
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  have to do. And then another time you begin
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  again, sit down again and then try Do this, I'm getting up in
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  the morning. Do this in the evening when
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  going to bed? You can do this look, if you
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  want to digest your food properly, you can do this for a
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  few minutes before eating you can imagine how much this helps
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  your digestion before beginning to eat.
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  You sit quietly for a while and say peace peace.
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  Peace and everything becomes calm.
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  It seems as though all the noises were going far far far
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  away. Mother stretches out her arms on
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  both sides. And then you must continue.
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  And there comes a time when you no longer need to sit down and
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  no matter what you are doing, no matter what you are saying, it
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  is always peace. Peace.
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  Peace. Everything remains here like
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  this. It does not enter gesture in
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  front of the forehead, it remains like this and then one
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  is always in a perfect piece after some years.
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  But at the beginning, a very small beginning, two or three
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  minutes, it is very simple for something complicated.
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  You must make an effort and when one makes an effort, one is not
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  quiet. It is difficult to make an
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  effort while remaining quiet. Very simple, very simple.
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  You must be very simple in these things.
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  It is though, you were learning how to call a friend by dint of
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  being called, he comes will make peace and calm your friends and
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  call them. Come peace.
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  Peace peace. Peace.
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  Come. In quote, reference SRI,
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  aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development, chapter for growth of Consciousness.
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  First steps and Foundation Pages, 78 to 80