My Pilgrimage to the Spirit

February 20, 1932

Q. I can become one with the Mother and you both even in cells of the body which was not possible before. Was not the physical mind standing in the way when the experience was not possible?

2) Is it not that after a course of purification and liberation of the physical consciousness that this intimacy and union were made possible?

A. There was something in the vital also (which was standing in the way of union).

2) Some purification perhaps of something that acts between the vital and physical consciousness.

Sri Aurobindo