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I-12 Costant practice and detachment

are the means to still the movements of consciousness

I-13 Costant practice is the steadfast effort to still these fluctuations

PATANJALI

ASTHANGA YOGA

BHAGAVAD GITA

CANTO VI

 LO YOGA DELLO SPIRITO SUPREMO

Verse 35

The Blessed Lord said :

Without doubt, O mighty armed, the mind is restless and very difficult to restrain, but, O Kaunteya, it may be controlled by costant pracise and non-attachment.

Verse 36

  This Yoga is difficult to attain by one who is not self-controlled; but by the self-controlled, it is attainable by properly directed efforts.

Free translation by Devadatta and Kiriti

LA MADRE

The true Power is always quiet.

Restlessness, agitation, impatience are sure signs of weakness and imperfection. 

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PEACE

The peace must be immense,

the quietness deep and still,

the calm unshakable

and the trust in the Divine ever-increasing.

* * *

It is by a quiet, strong and persistent peace

that the true victories con be won.

* * *

It is only in the tranquillity and peace

that one can know what is the best thing to do.

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Nowhere will you be able to find the peace 

unless you have peace in your heart.

* * * 

When the heart and the mind are at peace,

the rest naturally follows.

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Da PAROLE DELLA MADRE II – Volume 14 –

 Pubblicato dal Dipartimento delle Pubblicazioni dello Sri Aurobindo Ashram 

Pondicherry – India

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SRI RAMANA GITA

MIND-CONTROL – Chapter six

2. Men attached to sense-objects, ever obsessed by thought find it difficult to control the mind, …

3. One should control the fickle mind by controlling the breath and then it, like a tethered animal, ceases to stray.

4. With the control of breath,  control of thoughts also is achieved. When thoughts are controlled one stands established at their source.

5. Control of breath means merely watching with the mind the flow of breath …

SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI

30.12.1879

14.4.1950

How can we establish a settled peace and silense in the mind?

First of all, you must want it.

And then you must try and must persevere, keep on trying … … … You sit quietly, to begin with; and then, instead of thinking of fifty things,  you begin saying to yourself, “Peace, peace, peace, peace, peace, calm, peace !” You imagine peace and calm. You aspire, ask that it may come : “Peace, peace, calm.” And then, when something comes and touches you and acts, say quietly, like this, “Peace, peace, peace.” Do not look at the thoughts, do not listen to the thoughts, you understand. You must not pay attention to everything that comes …” 

THE MOTHER – QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1954

COLLECTED WORKS OF THE MOTHER – Volume 6 – 8 September 1954 – Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department – Pondicherry – India

Ocean Oneness

 Silence is round me, wideness ineffable;

White birds on the ocean diving and wandering;

        A soundless sea on a voiceless heaven,

                 Azure on azure, is mutely gazing.

Identified with silence and boundlessness

My spirit widens clasping the universe

       Till all that seemed becomes the Real,

                One in a mighty and single vastness.

Someone broods there nameless and bodiless,

Conscious and lonely, deathless and infinite,

       And, sole in a still eternal rapture,

                Gathers all things to his heart for ever.

SRI AUROBINDO – COLLECTED POEMS

The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo – Volume 2 – Published  by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication – Pondicherry – India