Q: Sweet Mother,
how can we empty the consciousness of its mixed contents?
The
Mother: By
aspiration, the rejection of the lower movements, a call to a higher force. If
you do not accept certain movements, then naturally, when they find that they
can’t manifest, gradually they diminish in force and stop occurring. If you
refuse to express everything that is of a lower kind, little by little the very
thing disappears, and the consciousness is emptied of lower things. It is by
refusing to give expression—I mean not only in action but also in thought, in
feeling. When impulses, thoughts, emotion come, if you refuse to express them,
if you push them aside and remain in a state of inner aspiration and calm, then
gradually they lose their force and stop coming. So the consciousness is
emptied of its lower movements.
But for instance, when undesirable thoughts
come, if you look at them, observe them, if you take pleasure in following them
in their movements, they will never stop coming. It is the same thing when you
have undesirable feelings or sensation: if you pay attention to them,
concentrate on them or even look at them with a certain indulgence, they will
never stop. But if you absolutely refuse to receive and express them, after
some time they stop. You must be patient and very persistent.
In a great aspiration, if you can put
yourself into contact with something higher, some influence of your psychic
being or some light from above, and if you can manage to put this in touch with
these lower movements, naturally they stop more quickly. But before even being
able to draw these things by aspiration, you can already stop those movements
from finding expression in you by a very persistent and patient refusal. When
thoughts which you do not like come, if you just brush them away and do not pay
them any attention at all, after some time they won’t come any longer. But you
must do this very persistently and regularly.
(CWM, Volume 6, Sri
Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Puducherry)
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