... vital gives up petty and illusory sensorial satisfactions in order to win the divine delight. Bulletin, February 1953 The Four Austerities and the Four Liberations - II The question of mental austerity immediately brings to mind long meditations leading to control of thought and culminating in inner silence. This aspect of yogic discipline is too well known to need dwelling upon. But there is... born orators who are masters of the spoken word; they spontaneously find all the words they need to say what they want to say and say it well. None of this, however, from the point of view of mental austerity, goes beyond the category of idle talk. For by idle talk I mean every word that is spoken without being absolutely indispensable. One may ask, how can one judge? For this, one must first make... into this abode of ideas and knowledge, man has brought the violence of his convictions, the intolerance of his sectarianism, the passion of his preferences. Thus, here too, one must resort to mental austerity and carefully avoid any exchange of ideas that leads to controversies which are all too often bitter and nearly always unnecessary, or any clash of opinion which ends in heated discussions and ...
... there are the born orators who are masters of elocution; they spontaneously find the words needed to say what they mean and they say it well. All that, however, from the point of view of mental austerity, does not fall outside the category of talkativeness. For by talkativeness I mean uttering any word that is not absolutely indispensable. How to judge? one may ask. For that, we have to classify... into this home of ideas and knowledge, man has introduced violence of his convictions, sectarian intolerance, passion of preference. Here also there will be the same need to have recourse to mental austerity and to carefully avoid all exchange of ideas that leads very often to bitter and almost always inane controversy, avoid too all oppositions of opinions which end in hot discussion and even dispute ...
... moment at last when "convinced of the greatness and beauty of the goal, the vital gives up petty and illusory sensorial satisfactions in order to win the divine delight". 15 VII Mental austerity 16 or the tapasya of Knowledge claims particular attention from the Mother, not so much in its aspect of thought-control or meditation to the point of ineffable silence, as in the more familiar ...
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