WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

Steps towards transformation

The being organised around the psychic: the first stage of transformation.

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Mental opening: the first step of the mind towards transformation.

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Mental prayer: spontaneous in a mind aspiring for transformation.

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Thirst to understand: very useful for transformation.

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Honesty in the physical mind: preliminary indispensable condition for transformation.

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Integral offering of the vital: an important stage towards transformation.

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Renunciation of emotional desires: indispensable for transformation.

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Not only the mind and the vital, but the body also in all its cells must aspire for the divine transformation.

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Physical plasticity: one of the important conditions of the transformation.

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Let the physical offer itself sincerely to the Divine and it will be transformed. This is proof of the resolution to liberate oneself from the ego.

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Humility before the Divine in the physical nature: first attitude needed for transformation.

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Psychic light in the physical movements: the first step towards the transformation of the physical.

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Psychic light in the material movements: essential condition for transformation.

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Psychic awakening in matter: matter open to spiritual life.

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Matter under the supramental guidance: the condition required for its transformation.

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Supramental light in the subconscient: essential condition for transformation.

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Supramental influence in the subconscient: under its modest appearance it is a great force for transformation.

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Transformation is the change by which all the elements, and all the movements of the being become ready to manifest the supramental Truth.

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Collected Works of The Mother, First Edition, Volume 15, pp. 96-98