Message of the Day: The 5 phases of True Mental Education

A true mental education, which will prepare man for a higher life, has five principal phases. Normally these phases follow one after another, but in exceptional individuals they may alternate or even proceed simultaneously. These five phases, in brief, are: (1) Development of the power of concentration, the capacity of attention. (2) Development of the capacities of expansion, widening, complexity and richness. (3) Organisation of one’s ideas around a central idea, a higher ideal or a supremely luminous idea that will serve as a guide in life.(4) Thought-control, rejection of undesirable thoughts, to become able to think only what one wants and when one wants.(5) Development of mental silence, perfect calm and a more and more total receptivity to inspirations coming from the higher regions of the being.

                       
-The Mother, On Education