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Create
Your Own Atmosphere
Sweet
Mother, here it is written: "A spiritual atmosphere
is more important than outer conditions. if one can
get that and also create one's own spiritual air to
breathe in and live in it, that is the true condition
of progress. "*How
can one get that and also create one's true spiritual
atmosphere?
...It is by... precisely by inner discipline;
you can create your atmosphere by controlling your
thoughts, turning them exclusively towards the sadhana,
controlling your actions, turning them exclusively
towards the sadhana, abolishing all desires and all
useless, external, ordinary activities, living a more
intense inner life, and separating yourself from ordinary
things, ordinary thoughts, ordinary reactions, ordinary
actions; then you create a kind of atmosphere around
you.
For example, instead of reading any odd
thing and chatting and doing
anything whatever, if you read only what helps you
to follow the path, if you act only in conformity
with what can lead you to the divine realisation,
if you abolish in yourself all desires and impulses
turned towards external things, if you calm your mental
being, appease your vital being, if you shut yourself
against suggestions coming from outside and become
immune to the action of people surrounding you, you
create such a spiritual atmosphere that nothing
can touch it, and it no longer depends at
all on circumstances or on whom you live with
or on the conditions you live in, because you are
enclosed in your own spiritual atmosphere. And that
is how one obtains it: by turning one's attention
solely to the spiritual life, by reading only
what can help in the spiritual life, by doing only
what leads you to the spiritual life, and so on. Then
you create your own atmosphere. But naturally, if
you open all the doors, listen to what people tell
you, follow the advice of this one and the inspirations
of that one, and are full of desires for outside things,
you cannot create a spiritual atmosphere for yourself.
You will have an ordinary atmosphere like everybody
else.
* Sri Aurobindo, Bases of
Yoga.
-THE
MOTHER
( Vol.6, p. 356-357)
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