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The mental foundation for sadhana
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Separating from the mind
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Published by Sri Aurobindo on 01/11/2018
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The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Our surface existence is only a surface and it is there that there is the full reign of the Ignorance; to know we have to go within ourselves and see with an inner knowledge. All that is formulated on the surface is a small and diminished representation of our secret greater existence. The immobile self in us is found only when the outer mental and vital activities are quieted; for since it is seated deep within and is represented on the surface only by the intuitive sense of self-existence and misrepresented by the mental, vital, physical ego-sense, its truth has to be experienced in the mind’s silence.

Ref: The Life Divine

 

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