While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
Sri AurobindoThe all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself - for this is your true self.
Sri AurobindoAll thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
Sri AurobindoEven if the being is not entirely purified, varieties of inspirations and powers may come down from above but this may lead to serious errors. Inspirations from above mixing with the impurities from below get all muddled up and the sadhak takes this for an absolute command. Many a sadhak has thus fallen into danger. Therefore, one must particularly lay stress on the purification of the being.
Sri Aurobindo