... difficult to do direct, as it is in certain natures, then the Page 46 change begins from above, and the consciousness descending from there has to liberate the heart centre. As it acts on the heart centre, the psychic action becomes more possible. The direct opening of the psychic centre is easy only when the ego-centricity is greatly diminished and also if there is a strong... easier for the nature to open the psychic from above than directly." Is it not a defect in the nature not to be able to open the psychic directly? There are people who simply concentrate on the heart centre and get a psychic opening! In using the expression "opening of the psychic" I was thinking not of an ordinary psychic opening producing some amount of psychic (as opposed to vital) love... the psychic. Our higher experiences or realisations bear a psychic stamp only when we materialise them. Right. My central consciousness has come down into the heart centre Page 47 and left the sadhana to the psychic being. Was it this that you meant when you wrote: "It is of the greatest importance."? No. It is the psychic opening ...
... 1954 The psychic being is in the heart centre in the middle of the chest (not in the physical heart, for all the centres are in the middle of the body), but it is deep behind. When one is going away from the vital into the psychic, it is felt as if one is going deep deep down till one reaches that central place of the psychic. The surface of the heart centre is the place of the emotional being;... Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 24 February 1951 The physical heart is in the left side, but the heart centre of yoga is in the middle of the chest—the cardiac centre. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The System of the Chakras I never heard of two lotuses in the heart centre; but it is the seat of two powers, in front the higher vital or emotional being, behind and concealed the ...
... action also. As for the dynamic descent, you say that the Force has descended to your forehead (inner mind) centre. It seems to be very slow in coming through. It has to come down to the heart centre and below before it can begin to be fully effective. Probably there must be something either in the physical mental (throat) [or] the emotional vital that obstructs the descent. That may be the... immediately fulfil the object. It works and waits and works again and that may go on for a long time. What good is this dynamic descent if it needs years and years merely to touch the heart centre? Just what is this dynamic descent? It is a thing which is new and has to be worked out by this Yoga. Why such a long period of emptiness after a descent? There... evening meditation, when concentrated above, I felt the Agni [Fire] of the Higher Consciousness coming down and uniting below with the psychic fire. Their oneness was experienced deep down in the heart centre. I have never heard of such a unity of the two fires. If the development of a higher consciousness did not bring things that were not before heard of by the mind, it would not be good ...
... Is there a centre near the heart? No. All the centres are in a straight line. That which is called "the heart centre" is at the solar plexus. Manipura is behind the navel. They are joined to the vertebral column. Steiner speaks, besides the solar plexus, of the heart centre. That is a mistake. My body feels the effects of the heat. These days I was tired. Also, I did my meditation... yourself above the mind, but the force must prepare what is not ready. Even if the mind is calm, these imperfections hold you back. What is the difference between the psychic being behind the heart-centre and the central being above the head? Are they two beings or one single being? Naturally, from one point of view, they are one. But your being, though one, is composed of many distinct beings... above and behind me. It is not a punctual pressure (it is not a single point of consciousness) but I feel it, touch it so to say, not only in relation with the head centre but also with the heart centre. What this pressure is I don't know. It is formless, but gives me a strong feeling of peace, calm and bliss. My feelings are also roused. What is it ? (Smiling) You have to wait and see what ...
... downwards. There may be variations in the preparatory stage. There may for in stance be a partial opening first of the heart centre. The higher vital centre may become active first also, but that means much struggle and difficulty. The psychic being is behind the heart-centre—the centre between the eyes is that of inner (occult) thought, will and vision. This inner or occult vision is called... mūlādhāra governs the physical down to the subconscient; the abdominal centre— svādhiṣṭhāna —governs the lower vital; the navel centre— nābhipadma or maṇipūra —governs the larger vital; the heart centre— hṛtpadma or anāhata —governs the emotional being; the throat centre— viśuddha —governs the expressive and externalising mind; the centre between the eyebrows— ājñācakra —governs the dynamic mind... opens to the intuition through which or else by an overflooding directness the overmind can have with the rest communication or an immediate contact. 1 I never heard of two lotuses in the heart centre; but it is the seat of two powers, in front the higher vital or emotional being, behind and concealed the soul or psychic being. The colours of the lotuses and the numbers of petals are respectively ...
... Truth above instead of rising into the spiritual transcendence to live there. For some the mental concentration is easier, for some the concentration in the heart centre; some are capable of doing both alternately—but to begin with the heart centre, if one can do it, is the more desirable. The other side of discipline is with regard to the activities of the nature, of the mind, of the life-self or... consciousness of the Presence, the dedication of the being to the Highest and invites the descent into our nature of a greater Force and Consciousness which is waiting above us. To concentrate in the heart centre with the offering of oneself to the Divine and the aspiration for this inward opening and for the Presence in the heart is the first way and, if it can be done, the natural beginning; for its result ...
... the opening of the heart centre. It can—but that usually leads to মোক্ষ or to জ্ঞান 91 only, what Ramakrishna called শুষ্ক জ্ঞান 92 I think that an intellectually developed man like N has an advantage over an emotional man like U; he will have a greater depth, wideness and vastness, and will most probably have also the experiences that U had, when his heart centre opened. Leaving... order the head opens up first and the heart afterwards—finally all the centres. So what is there to be worried about? If you are satisfied only with peace, knowledge and mukti, then perhaps the heart centre may open to that only. But if you want the love, then the descending Power and Light will work for that also. So cheer up and don't get into a state of pother with imaginary difficulties. S ...
... Page 40 of the consciousness above. In the heart centre one concentrates in an aspiration, for an opening, for the presence of the living image of the Divine there or whatever else is the object. There may be Japa of a name but, if so, there must also be a concentration on it and the name must repeat itself there in the heart centre. It may be asked what becomes of the rest of the ... play of nature - how far this goes depending on the development of Page 33 the inner being and its opening upward to the higher spiritual levels. At the same time the opening of the heart centre releases the psychic being which proceeds to make us aware of the Divine within us and of the higher Truth above us. For the highest spiritual Self is not even behind our personality and bodily... When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other Page 35 vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates ...
... The psychic being is in the heart centre in the middle of the chest (not in the physical heart, for all the centres are in the middle of the body), but it is deep behind. When one is going away from the vital into the psychic, it is felt as if one is going deep deep down till one reaches that central place of the psychic. The surface of the heart centre is the place of the emotional being;... Truth above instead of rising into the spiritual transcendence to live there. For some the mental concentration is easier, for some the concentration in the heart centre; some are capable of doing both alternately — but to begin with the heart centre, if one can do it, is the more desirable. The other side of discipline is with regard to the activities of the nature, of the mind, of the life-self... consciousness of the Presence, the dedication of the being to the Highest and invites the descent into our nature of a greater Force and Consciousness which is waiting above us. To concentrate in the heart centre with the offering of oneself to the Divine and the aspiration for this inward opening and for the Presence in the heart is the first way and, if it can be done, the natural beginning; for its result ...
... conscious and masters of the play of nature—how far this goes depending on the development of the inner being and its opening upward to the higher spiritual levels. At the same time the opening of the heart centre releases the psychic being which proceeds to make us aware of the Divine within us and of the higher Truth above us. For the highest spiritual Self is not even behind our personality and bodily... established, this higher or Divine Force Page 113 from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres the into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical... until, if that be the aim of the sadhana, it becomes possible to bring down the supramental force and existence. All this is prepared, assisted, farthered by the work of the psychic being in the heart centre; the more it is open, in front, active, the quicker, safer, easier the working of the Force can be. The more love and bhakti and surrender grow in the heart, the more rapid and perfect becomes the ...
... and an ascent of the consciousness above. In the heart-centre one concentrates in an aspiration, for Page 308 an opening, for the presence or living image of the Divine there or whatever else is the object. There may be japa of a name but, if so, there must also be a concentration on it and the name must repeat itself there in the heart-centre. It may be asked what becomes of the rest of... into the silence and the pure spiritual experience. One can concentrate in any of the three centres which is easiest to the sadhak or gives most result. The power of the concentration in the heart-centre is to open that centre and by the power of aspiration, love, bhakti, surrender remove the veil which covers and conceals the soul and bring forward the soul or psychic being to govern the mind,... The two main places where one can centre the consciousness for Yoga are in the head and in the heart—the mind-centre and the soul-centre. One has to open through concentration in the heart centre or above the head, in the former case to the psychic, in the latter to the higher Truth. But without the psychic preparation or at least a thorough purification of the being, the latter course is ...
... conscious and masters of the play of nature—how far this goes depending on the development of the inner being and its opening upward to the higher spiritual levels. At the same time the opening of the heart centre releases the psychic being which proceeds to make us aware of the Divine within us and of the higher Truth above us. For the highest spiritual Self is not even behind our personality and bodily... For when the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical... until, if that be the aim of the sadhana, it becomes possible to bring down the supramental force and existence. All this is prepared, assisted, farthered by the work of the psychic being in the heart centre; the more it is open, in front, active, the quicker, safer, easier the working of the Force can be. The more love and bhakti and surrender grow in the heart, the more rapid and perfect becomes the ...
... life and body."4 " The psychic being is in the heart centre in the middle of the chest (not in the physical heart, for the centres are "in the middle of the body,) but it is deep behind."5 " The psychic being is a Purusha, not a flame, - the psychic fire is not the being, it is something proper to it."6 " The opening of the heart centre releases the psychic being which proceeds to make... thought, sight and will, a third in the throat which is the externalising mind. .A second division is from the shoulders to the navel ;these are the layers of the higher vital presided over by the heart centre where is the emotional being with the psychic hidden behind it. From the navel downwards is the rest of the vital being containing several layers. From the bottom of the spine downward are the... Muladhara governs the physical down to the subconscient; the abdominal centre, Svadhishthana, governs the lower vital; the navel centre, Nabhi padma, or manipura, governs the larger vital; the heart centre—hrt-padma, or Anahata, governs the emotional being; the throat centre, Vishuddha, governs the expressive and externalising mind; the centre between the eye-brows, Agnachakra, governs the dynamic ...
... and travels from birth to birth and feels the experiences and grows by them till it is able to join itself with the free Atman above. The psychic being is concealed in the depths behind the heart-centre. The Self has no separate place—it is everywhere. Your self and the self of all beings is the same. Love, joy and happiness come from the psychic. The Self gives peace or a universal Ananda... become the normal experience. The psychic is realised as the Purusha behind the heart. It is not universalised like the Jivatman, but is the individual soul supporting from its place behind the heart-centre the mental, vital, physical, psychic evolution of the being in Nature. Its realisation brings Bhakti, self-giving, surrender, turning of all the movements Godward, discrimination and choice of all... The psychic being in the old systems was spoken of as the Purusha in the heart (the secret heart— hṛdaye guhāyām ) which corresponds very well to what we define as the psychic being behind the heart centre. It was also this that went out from the body at death and persisted—which again corresponds to our teaching that it is this which goes out and returns, linking new life to former life. Also we ...
... Truth above instead of rising into the spiritual transcendence to live there. For some the mental concentration is easier, for some the concentration in the heart centre; some are capable of doing both alternately—but to begin with the heart centre, if one can do it, is the more desirable. The other side of discipline is with regard to the activities of the nature, of the mind, of the life-self or... consciousness of the Presence, the dedication of the being to the Highest and invites the descent into our nature of a greater Force and Consciousness which is waiting above us. To concentrate in the heart centre with the offering of oneself to the Divine and the aspiration for this inward opening and for the Presence in the heart is the first way and, if it can be done, the natural beginning; for its result... Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - II: Seeking the Divine One can concentrate in any of the three centres which is easiest to the sadhak or gives most result. The power of the concentration in the heart-centre is to open that centre and by the power of aspiration, love, bhakti, surrender remove the veil which covers and conceals the soul and bring forward the soul or psychic being to govern the mind, ...
... ss and each has its own light and force. He is not confined to his position in the heart or to the single cord of the psycho-spiritual realisation. He has also his supramental station above the heart-centre and mind-centres and can descend from there if He wants to do so. 3 March 1937 I am giving below the best brief account by Paul Brunton of the Maharshi's technique of discovering what Brunton... upon the One Divine. These are the characteristic realisations of the Overself familiar to the Vedanta. But on the other hand you say that this Overself is realised by the Maharshi as lodged in the heart-centre, and it is described by Brunton as something concealed which when it manifests appears as the real Thinker, source of all action, but now guiding thought and action in the Truth. Now the first ...
... first and the heart afterwards—finally all the centres. So what is there Page 446 to be concerned about? 1 If you are satisfied only with peace, knowledge and mukti, then perhaps the heart centre may open to that only. But if you want the love, then the descending Power and Light will work for that also. So cheer up and don't get into a state of pother with imaginary difficulties. ... × The correspondent was concerned that he might receive knowledge but not love since his head centre seemed to be opening before his heart centre.—Ed. ...
... psychic behind it), but does not yet reach below in the lower vital and physical—but it is dissolving the knot in the heart centre which prevents the descent into the lower vital and physical centres. The joy in the śānta svarūpa is indeed a sign of the release of the heart centre. But the phrase in the Upanishads refers more particularly to the breaking of the knots of desire, attachment, sanskara ...
... it essential to concentrate on any centre? Without concentrating on any centre I am finding it easy to push back the thoughts." The advice to concentrate on either the head-centre or the heart-centre is for those who have to learn to meditate. To focus their consciousness where thinking or feeling takes place serves to activate the meditative state. Meditation in the Yogic sense seems to me... the real urge within me was to open my emotional self to them. I did not know how to make this urge active. Knowing that I was an intellectual, the Mother told me to imagine an open book in my heart-centre. I was a little disappointed, "What? Again a book? Do I nor want to get away from books?" I grumbled to myself. But having faith in the Mother's wisdom I followed her advice for some time. ...
... intuitive mind and overmind, which ultimately leads to the Supermind. In the yogic terminology of the integral yoga these two concentrations are termed as concentrations on (i) the heart centre, since it is behind the heart centre, deep in the inmost depths, that the psychic being is located, and (ii) the head centre, since the superconscient levels of consciousness are above the head centre. While dealing ...
... are the two highest centres — and the first to be touched by the descending Force. What is the higher vital? Page 10 The heart and the dynamic vital. The heart centre and navel centre. The year 1934 Listening to the Mother's music I felt something descending into me. Up to the neck the descent was concretely experienced. ... between the higher consciousness and the lower in the body. It is a passage not a centre. The centre is the thousand petalled lotus just above the head, at that part. The station in the heart centre is for the psychic opening. What you are at present doing is the upward opening to the Self and for that the inner mind centre is the proper station. The heart is the seat not only of ...
... then. But when it is found difficult to do direct, as it is in certain natures, then the change begins from above, and the consciousness descending from there has to liberate the heart centre. As it acts on the heart centre, the psychic action becomes more possible. The direct opening of the psychic centre is easy only when Page 352 the ego-centricity is greatly diminished and also... otherwise the inner consciousness is not opened out and liberated to its full working in all its parts. There is however no invariable rule as to the order of the opening. By concentration on the heart centre that can open first liberating the psychic action, which is veiled by the emotional, into free play. In many there is first some opening of the vital centre and for a long time there is an abundant ...
... 1934 When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional Page 204 being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates... until, if that be the aim of the sadhana, it becomes possible to bring down the supramental force and existence. All this is prepared, assisted, farthered by the work of the psychic being in the heart centre; the more it is open, in front, active, the quicker, safer, easier the working of the Force can be. The more love and bhakti and surrender grow in the heart, the more rapid and perfect becomes the... same time an increasing contact and union with the Divine. That is the fundamental rationale of the Sadhana. It will be evident that the two most important things here are the opening of the heart centre and the opening of the mind centres to all that is behind and above them. For the heart opens to the psychic being and the mind centres open to the higher consciousness and the nexus between the ...
... psychic? Yes, when it is full of vital movements or accustomed more to a vital than a psychic way of emotion. When there is a strong working or pressure on the heart-centre, is it some action on the psychic being? Action does not take place on the psychic being, but on the emotional vital. That may result in the release of the psychic being. ... with my peace, silence or self-realisation. That is better. Leaving aside the higher station, since yesterday I am trying to concentrate more and more on the Mother in the heart centre, with the attitude: Let me live in her, with her and it is enough. The attitude is good for awakening the psychic and the inner being generally. But if the higher experience comes... itself up it is fought out. Is it right to say it is the psychic being? Your description at the end shows that it must be the psychic. Instead of staying at the heart-centre why does my psychic Page 195 being stay mostly on the Sachchidananda plane above the head? It is from there that it manifests love and joy and governs the human nature. ...
... Truth above instead of rising into the spiritual transcendence to live there. For some the mental concentration is easier, for some the concentration in the heart centre; some are capable of doing both alternately but to begin with the heart centre, if one can do it, is the more desirable. The other side of discipline is with regard to the activities of the nature, of the mind, of the life-self... Presence, the dedication of the being to the Highest and invites the descent into our nature of a Page 82 greater Force and Consciousness which is waiting above us. To concentrate in the heart centre with the offering of oneself to the Divine and the aspiration for this inward opening and for the Presence in the heart is the first way and, if it can be done, the natural beginning; for its ...
... unseen lid and an ascent of the consciousness above. In the heart centre one concentrates in an aspiration, for an opening, for the presence of the living image of the Divine there or whatever else is the object. There may be Japa of a name but, if so, there must also be a concentration on it and the name must repeat itself there in the heart centre. Page 45 It may be asked what becomes ...
... may conduce to the opening of the inner heart-centre. The psychic element in the mind and in the vital force should be Page 65 your teacher. Here my master-formula is to be applied: equanimity plus "Remember and offer." Whoever takes to the spiritual ideal has been led to it either by a direct explosion of the secret dweller in the heart-centre or by this "divine dwarf" 's fingers of ...
... of being a simple child in the arms of the Divine Mother. From the little that I know of practical sadhana I would call this attitude a state of never-stopping flow of spontaneous warmth from the heart-centre to the Truth that is Sri Aurobindo and the Beauty that is the Mother. All this should throw some light on the inner meaning of your son's cryptic-mystic rejoinder to the Catholic Sister's s... no glint of insight except rarely the feeling of inevitable fate and dumb resentment, a la Housman in a rebellious mood, against Whatever brute or blackguard made the world. When the heart-centre is pierced, there is either the exquisite Virgilian cry, as passed through Amal Kiran's translation (or transcreation): Page 49 Haunted by tears is the world and our hearts by ...
... then the whole head is occupied, as you feel now with the fourmillement at the time of concentration. Once the head with its mental centres is open and occupied, the Force descends rapidly to the heart centre, unless there is some obstacle or a resistance in the higher vital parts. From there it sends its stream into the whole body and begins to occupy the vital and physical centres—from the navel to... level and below. As for the dynamic descent, you say that the Force has descended to your forehead (inner mind) centre. It seems to be very slow in coming through. It has to come down to the heart centre and below before it can begin to be fully effective. Probably there must be something either in the physical mental (throat) or the emotional vital that obstructs the descent. That may be the reason ...
... The psychic being is in the heart centre in the middle of the chest (not in the physical heart, for all the centres are in the middle of the body), but it is deep behind. When one is going away from the vital into the psychic, it is felt as if one is going deep deep down till one reaches that central place of the psychic. The surface of the heart centre is the place of the emotional being; ...
... with us tempting to follow any alluring call. This is the reason why in this Yoga we insist so much on what we call samarpaṇa —rather inadequately rendered by the English word surrender. If the heart centre is fully opened and the psychic is always in control, then there is no question; all is safe. But the psychic can at any moment be veiled by a lower upsurge. It is only a few who are exempt from ...
... Matter? Life and mind could as well be described in that language—they can be felt or seen as immaterial substances. Again what is this "own being" of yours to which you are united by your heart-centre and which unites you to the universal Mind? Is it the mental or the psychic being or what is it? All this is confused and vague in the last degree. "Thy own being" is an expression which would usually ...
... am not getting any joy in my sadhana, any experience or realisation—nothing at all. This makes me very sad and unhappy. May the Mother bestow on me the flow of Peace and help me to open my closed heart-centre. There has always been too much reliance on the action of your own mind and will—that is why you cannot progress. If you could once get the habit of silent reliance on the power of the Mother—not ...
... the psychic comes forward fully? Yes. The psychic is always there. 21 September 1934 Page 468 That which calls is your own psychic being whose place is deep inside behind the heart-centre. Many people feel at times the call for the Mother going on from there. It comes more easily in sleep or in a half-waking condition because then the surface mind is not active so that what is going ...
... tion here, only escape from life and mukti in Goloka, Brahmaloka, Shivaloka or the Absolute. 11 June 1936 What good is the dynamic descent if it needs years and years merely to touch the heart centre? What exactly is this descent? It is a thing which is new and has to be worked out by this Yoga. 12 June 1936 The Supramental Yoga and Humanity I can say little about the method he ...
... both together. 122 * Page 102 One can concentrate in any of the three centres which is easiest to the sadhak or gives most result. The power of the concentration in the heart-centre is to open that centre and by the power of aspiration, love, bhakti, surrender remove the veil which covers and conceals the soul and bring forward the soul or psychic being to govern the mind, ...
... upon the One Divine. These are the characteristic realisations of the Overself familiar to the Vedanta. But on the other hand you say that this Overself is realised by the Maharshi as lodged in the heart-centre, and it is described by Brunton as something concealed which when it manifests appears as the real Thinker, source of all action, but now guiding thought and action in the Truth. Now the first ...
... of it) and the centre of that is in the neck (throat). In the suṣupti , if it is real suṣupti , not merely unconscious of dreams, but absence of dreams, the consciousness is deep within in the heart centre or behind it—for that is the veiled centre of the innermost being. The Jivatman, Spark-Soul and Psychic Being The Jivatman, spark-soul and psychic being are three different forms of the same ...
... entering into the inner vital first, others into the inner mental or inner physical; the emotional vital is the most direct road, for the seat of the psychic is just behind the emotional in the heart centre. It is absolutely necessary for our purpose that one should become conscious in these inner regions, for if they are not awake, then the psychic being has no proper and sufficient instrumentation ...
... may be and are likely to be mental and vital difficulties—only then, there is also the right psychic power and perception behind to deal with them. It [ the flow of love and joy from the heart centre ] can be misused on a large scale only if there is a strong and vehement vital ego not accustomed to correction or else a vital full of the kāmavāsanā . On a small scale it can be misused by the ...
... psychic if you are not conscious of its action?" I do it in the same way that I surrender to the Force above. I simply imagine that there is the Force above or that there is a psychic being in the heart centre. Imagining so, I surrender myself to it. It is then a saṅkalpa of surrender. But the surrender must be to the Mother—not even to the Force, but to the Mother herself. But I do not know ...
... devotion and surrender. 30 October 1934 The Mother has already given you orally the answer to your letter and the directions you asked for. As she told you, your concentration should be in the heart centre and all the rest—the rising above the head etc.—should come of itself in the natural process of the sadhana. Through the heart you will get the closer and closer touch of the Mother and the working ...
... God's omnipresence is multiple, He is everywhere in all His aspects while the Silent Self is ubiquitous in Page 164 one aspect alone. Similarly those who live only in the Inner Heart-centre have an intense divine sweetness and radiance, yet there is wanting the vast cosmic sweep and the pouring transcendent solar splendour. Even the complete cosmic consciousness will not exhaust the ...
... আসে, কিন্তু মায়ের শক্তি ও চৈতন্য সেখানে থাকলে আর প্রবেশ করতে পারে না ৷ সাদা পদ্মের অর্থ এই যে সেখানে মায়ের চৈতন্য প্রকাশ হচ্ছে ৷ পিছনের দিকে psychic beingএর স্থান আর সেখানে যত কেন্দ্র, যেমন heart centre, vital centre, physical centre যেখানে মেরুদণ্ডের সঙ্গে সংশ্লিষ্ট হয়, সেখানে তাদের প্রতিষ্ঠার স্থান ৷ এই জন্য এই পিছনের দিকটার চেতনার অবস্থা বড় important. 24.1.36 এই যে feeling যে মা ...
... abruptly giving way. I kept offering the painful occasion to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. All of a sudden, at the Samadhi, I felt a complete opening inwardly to Them. I myself was there in the heart-centre and behind me, sustaining my being was a wide warm Presence perpetually transfusing into me a deep peace, a profound happiness, the sense of a personified eternal smile holding me up and passing ...
... understand why I don't feel Your love and happiness. Happiness and love do not accompany all experiences. Instead, I find that there is an active concentration. I often feel a pressure in the heart-centre. But why can't there be a little happiness and love too? The experience is only one of an awakening of consciousness. 27 March 1935 Page 88 All will be You, nothing but ...
... should we do about it? Keep thinking of it? Keep your thought focused upon it in a concentrated way. And when no subject is given, is it enough to concentrate on your Presence in the heart-centre? Should we avoid a formulated prayer? Yes, concentration on the Presence is enough. ( Examples of subjects for meditation ) New birth. Birth to a new consciousness. The psychic consciousness ...
... time of this fusion, this junction, to the consciousness it's obvious that the identical alone can know the identical, and that consequently it's proof that That is there ( Mother points to the heart centre ). It's a proof that That is there. And through the effort of aspiration, It awakens. When I was given the question, it was just as if that person were saying to me, "Yes, yes, that's all very ...
... s. Here the central dynamism in us invoking and receiving the Divine is what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother term the Psychic Being, the Soul of us which is stationed in the inmost recesses of the heart-centre, the centre which the Gita seeks to activate through its Yoga of Devotion. The Lord Himself or the Divine Mother or rather the two together as a single Reality are secretly present most luminously ...
... is Savitri? It can be regarded, in its own language, as Sight's sound-waves breaking from the soul's great deeps. [p. 383] So to approach it I would try to concentrate in the heart-centre and plunge into it until I felt it as not only intense but also immense - and in that secrecy of warm wideness I would become all eyes and ears bent upon feeling Savitri as the outflow of my own ...
... Aurobindo doubly calls it - the psychic being was known. The Upanishadic Yoga is actually a universalisation Page 78 of consciousness into the infinite and eternal Self from the heart-centre where the Chaitya Purusha, the Antaratman, the thumb-like Purusha, is seated. The Gita with its call for total surrender to the Divine beyond all dharmas is fundamentally a call to the psychic ...
... has them because the psychic is trying to express itself ' through the vital. It is through the emotional being that the ' psychic most easily expresses, for it stands just behind it in " the heart centre. But it wants these things to be pure. Not that , it rejects the outward expression through the vital and the Physical, but as the psychic being is the form of the soul, it naturally feels the ...
... , p. 1099) If a sadhaka attends to these conditions and, without getting impatient or discouraged at the delay, keep s the fire of his aspiration burning, learn s to concentrate on his heart -centre and go inward. if he maintains faith in the constant action of the Grace of the Mother. instead of relying too much on the efficacy of his own personal effort, if he develops in his heart a genuine ...
... Thus at the lowest rung of the ladder as always is the earth representing precisely matter and material existence; next, water represents life and the vital movement; then, fire represents the heart centre from where wells up all impulse and drive for progression. It holds the evolutionary urge: we call it the Divine Agni, the Flame of the Inner Heart, the radiant Energy of Aspiration. The fourth ...
... calls the plane of Truth-Consciousness, the Supermind. It is the supreme luminous Power-—the Light of lights—towards which the creation moves and by which the creation is moved in secret. It is the heart-centre of fulfilled harmony. Man has been striving through his lesser powers, through "the grace of the lower gods since his advent upon earth to arrive at a reconstruction of his life and surroundings ...
... yoga. When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre... then into the navel and other vital centres... then into the sacral region and below.... It works at the same time for perfection as well as liberation; it takes up the whole nature part by part ...
... "Coiled Energy" or the kundalini power. Swadhishthana is below the abdomen, the chakra of the lower vital. Manipura is at the navel-centre where the lower vital ends. Anahata is our heart-centre which is the seat of the psychic and the higher vital. Vishuddha is at the throat-centre, the centre of speech. Ajna chakra is located between the eyebrows. This is the seat of the will-power ...
... was sitting on the chair, meditating at 11.30 or so in the night. Long had been my aspiration for it, but however hard I might try I had never succeeded before. The Force was ascending from the heart centre to the head and it continued three times, each time as I concentrated at the heart. I could see somewhat the inside of the body, though it was very vague and opaque. In between I saw the open pen ...
... and spiritual persons? Sri Aurobindo : Of course, there is; saints are limited by their psychic nature, but spiritual men are not. The saint, generally, proceeds from and lives in the heart-centre. The spiritual man might live in other higher centres – say, above the head, in the spiritual consciousness. Disciple : It is not quite clear to me – the distinction. Sri Aurobindo ...
... bhakti, none whatsoever," said Mother. "The idea of surrender to the Divine was absolutely alien to him. Yet Page 102 he did have the idea of the Divine Presence, here in the heart centre, of the immanent Divine, and of union with That. And he said that it was by uniting with That and letting That transform the being that one could attain this divine creation and the earth's tra ...
... guide me. I fervently asked her: "What should I do to check this harassment? I would like to follow your will and your way." Suddenly there was an exquisite explosion, as it were, in the occult heart-centre in the middle of the chest and, through the opening made there, an intense love flowed out towards the person who had been considered an enemy. Here then was the Mother's unexpected answer to ...
... blessings 2.2.1963 [Beneath the reproduction of a painting of a white lotus with the Mother's feet in its centre and flames all around it.] To Champaklal Let it be the true image of your heart centre. The Mother (Mother said: “Champaklal, get it framed and keep it carefully.”—Champaklal.) 2.2.1964 Bonne Fête! To Champaklal the great doer of cards this card to tell him my ...
... governs the physical down to the subconscient; the abdominal centre — svādhiṣṭhāna — governs the lower vital; the navel centre — nābhipadma or maṇipūra — governs the larger vital; the heart centre — hrt-padma or anāhata — governs the emotional being; the throat centre — viśuddha — governs the expressive and externalising mind; the centre between the eyebrows — ājñācakra — governs ...
... being the sex centre, then the navel centre commanding vital feelings like anger, fear and greed, while the higher vital feelings (courage, generosity, sympathy and “love”) are dependent on the heart centre. This centre has a double function, for if opened, it also gives access to the soul, whose locus in the human material embodiment is just behind the heart. (This double function is the reason why ...
... phase in which the psyche had suddenly burst to the surface and covered the whole consciousness for days on end, a great warmth of aspiration and love for the Divine blazing out through the heart-centre and surrounding the body and leaping upward from the head toward unknown immensities. I felt cut off from all that had been connected with my ordinary life. The most astonishing result was that ...
... to feel at the back of one a nameless Peace that is a Power to stand everything without personal reaction. But these greatnesses are likely to be drawn to us by the Divine Himself acting from our heart-centre, and not need our own exertion in the direct sense though some initiative on the part of creatures who are self-aware is always expected, an eager cry and a glad consent to the Deathless In-dweller ...
... comprises the universal Self of selves as well as light, peace, power, knowledge and Ananda descending from "overhead". The psychic is the discovery of our true soul which is hidden in the depths of the heart-centre and which is Page 58 perpetually in the presence of the Individual Personal Divine because it is itself put forth by the Divine as a centre of individual, personal yet non-egoistic ...
... February 21, 1928 and Sri Aurobindo's on August 15 of the same year was for me a luminously crucial one. Although ostensibly an intellectual, I longed from the very start to have an opening in the heart-centre. The Mother, in order to make it easier for me, told me in what she considered terms most intelligible to me: "Think of or picture your heart as an open book." I somehow felt a little disappointed ...
... not a brainless emotionalist seeing in a super-rosy light everything connected with the object of devotion. Besides, devotion is of various kinds; at its best it is only the opening of the deep heart-centre by which an ideal becomes dynamically operative in the emotions and in the life-impulses instead of remaining a high and dry intellectual light; it makes one's very bodily being respond to the ideal ...
... The sensations you have written about - a pressure in your chest and a tingling in your limbs - are not uncommon in the Yogic life. The former has been found to precede the opening of the heart-centre. Some time in the future you will feel as if a wall in your chest has broken down, setting free the wonder that is the psychic being, a source of self-existent bliss. The tingling may have something ...
... radically, a solid support abruptly giving way. I kept offering the painful occasion to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. All of a sudden, at the Samadhi, I felt an intense inward opening to them in the heart-centre. Behind my own self in that centre supporting me, sustaining my being was a wide warm Presence perpetually transfusing into me a deep peace, a profound happiness, the sense of a personified eternal ...
... Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 3) 15 You have asked me: "How to reach my heart-centre? Any practical method for concentration, etc.?" I have rarely concentrated on any point in the body. There is the advice to concentrate in the middle of the chest or the middle of the brows or on the top of the head. I have known Yogic work carried on ...
... to manipulate the world by sheer will-power. There have been occasions when I wanted something to happen or to be done and a force went forth from the ideative mind but backed by an urge from the heart-centre and a drive from the vital being - and Io, the impossible-looking event which had been willed and aspired after took place. But on other occasions there was only a passing on to the Mother of what ...
... middle of my chest. But ever since I came to the Ashram it has been my aspiration to be open there. Again and again at the beginning of my stay I used to plead with the Mother to break open the heart-centre to the Divine. I did not realise at that time that the Divine Himself has His central presence in us deep in our heart and that the true soul of us is secretiy poised there, an evolutionary emanation ...
... will, a third in the throat which is Page 128 the externalising mind. A second division is from the shoulders to the navel, these are the layers of the higher vital presided over by the heart centre where is the emotional being with the psychic hidden behind it. From the navel downwards is the rest of the vital being containing several layers. From the bottom of the spine downward are the layers ...
... dynamisation of Nature. A second approach made by the soul to the direct contact is through the heart: this is its own more close and rapid way because its occult seat is there, just behind in the heart-centre, in close contact with the emotional being in us; it is consequently through the emotions that it can act best at the beginning with its native power, with its living force of concrete experience ...
... there the difficulties of the emotional can come, but what has to be done is not to stay on the surface but go deep within. For the psychic is there behind the emotional surface, deep behind the heart centre. Once one reaches it, these things can no longer touch; what will be there is the inner peace and happiness, the untroubled aspiration, the presence or nearness of the Mother. To indulge ...
... —the vital has them because the psychic is trying to express itself through the vital. It is through the emotional being that the psychic most easily expresses, for it stands just behind it in the heart centre. But it wants these things to be pure. Not that it rejects the outward expression through the vital and the physical, but as the psychic being is the form of the soul, it naturally feels the attraction ...
... Ananda? But I feel as if you have given me a lift forward—the fulfilling of the Mother's promise—"I am coming". Am I right? It looks like it. At any rate there is evidently an opening in the heart-centre or you would not have had the change or the vision with the stilling of the physical consciousness in the body. 30 October 1934 Last night I had a dream that you had come out of your seclusion ...
... are the worlds of Sachchidananda. Tiphareth is certainly the psychic, not the emotional only. It is central, (in our system the psychic stands behind the others, supporting them from behind the heart-centre); it is also in direct connection with all except the earth-centre (in ours it is not quite so, but still in the earth consciousness the psychic is so covered with the darkened vital that to get ...
... governs the physical down to the subconscient; the abdominal centre - sv ā dhisth ā na - governs the lower vital; the navel centre - n āb hipadma or manipura - governs the larger vital; the heart centre - hrdpadma or an ā hata - governs the emotional being; the throat centre -vi ś uddha- governs the expressive and externalising mind; the centre between the eye-brows - ājnācakra - governs ...
... the evolving soul of the individual, the divine portion in him which evolves from life to life, growing by its experiences until it becomes a fully self-conscious being. From its place behind the heart centre, the psychic supports the mind, life and body and, as it develops, increasingly aids their evolution and growth. The word psychic, from the Greek psyche, is used in its original sense of soul, as ...
... through the head, but with great suffering and pain. Her whole body was dead cold and frigid, and it took some time for her to become normal. She prays for Thy help. It is through the heart centre (solar plexus) that one must enter the body—the other two (feet and head) are considered as impossible. The entering through the head seems miraculous and no wonder that it was painful. But ...
... attraction for you. He wants my advice. It may be that the photo is an ancient one. He must take one of the latest photographs. Otherwise he must pull up the sensation and offer it in the heart centre. Blessings. 21 April 1970 Page 324 Mother, A fear is arising in me. From my childhood up to the time of coming here, I had an ambition for being a leader amongst men ...
... Some Aspects Sri Aurobindo's International Centre of Education Many people who know or have heard of Sri Aurobindo Ashram do not know of its core, the heart-centre and pivot of all its manifold activities, the International Centre of Education. Sri Aurobindo had long thought of this centre for radiating his teachings through its alumnies as the best way to ...
... She is all that is beautiful, all that is good, all that is true and eternal. A mystic Egyptian writing says, "She was, She is, and She will be." Through yoga or concentration on the heart centre, you may discover Her, the eternal Presence whom the mind of men has given Many names and forms. 46 - 47 HOME continue ...
... Murdhanya or Sushumna Nadi. Thus, we read in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (IV. 4. 2): "Hṛdayasyagraṁ dyotate, tena pradyotena eṣa ātmā niṣkramati cakṣustho va mūrdhṇo vā..." "The heart centre gets illuminated at the moment of death and the Atma takes help of that light to pass out of the body mostly through the eyes ." Some other scriptures state that at the time of death the ...
... any moment of a sadhaka' s life, before arriving at any decision, if he wants to know the Divine's Will in the matter in question, he should first try to recognise this 'central will' in his 'heart-centre'; because, as we have just now mentioned, the D» vine Will becomes operative in the individual's life through the 'central will'. But it is not easy for the extrovert superficial consciousness ...
... Peace or Ananda? But I feel as if you have given me a lift forward—the fulfilling of your promise—I am coming. Am I right? It looks like it. At any rate there is evidently an opening in the heart-centre or you would not have had the change or the vision with the stilling of the physical consciousness in the body. October 30, 1934 × ...
... and I had a coat on me. I began to pluck various flowers for offering to the Mother. Unexpectedly, the flower called 'Divine Love' (Punica granatum) fell by itself and was caught just at my chest (heart centre) where the collar of the coat closes in. Any meaning? An indication of its coming in the heart. I think this can't be a mere accident as it appears to the outer ...
... of the two contraries? It is the Agni and the peace together. Why do I have a station in the forehead centre instead of in the heart? The station in the heart centre is for the psychic opening. What you are at present doing is the upward opening to the Self and for that the inner mind centre is the proper station. I feel a rising movement skywards ...
... and the woman the victory banner is uplifted. NOTES 1. Triply – mind, life and body – bh > ū > r-bhuvar-svar 2. Lotus – the Heart Centre – the Divine within; Thunder – the Crown Centre – the Divine above. > 3. The Consciousness – moves upward, it cannot be tied down upon the earth. 4. Jewel ...
... the plane of Truth-Consciousness, the Superrnind. It is the supreme luminous Power — the Light of lights — towards which the creation moves and by which the creation is moved in secret. It is the heart-centre of fulfilled harmony. Man has been striving through his lesser powers, through the grace of the lower gods since his advent upon earth to arrive at a reconstruction of his life and ...
... future architects have made a new and solid structure on these as their basis. Rammohan was indeed the soul in the heart. The Upanishad says that the nerves of the body-vessel are assembled in this heart-centre and from here they go out everywhere in all directions. Likewise in Rammohan too a new orientation in the mind and life of the nation, the modern consciousness in all its branches of culture has ...
... the plane of Truth-Consciousness, the Supermind. It is the supreme luminous Power – the Light of lights – towards which the creation moves and by which the creation is moved in secret. It is the heart-centre of fulfilled harmony. Man has been striving through his lesser powers, through the grace of the lower gods since his advent upon earth to arrive at a reconstruction of his life and surroundings ...
... "Coiled Energy" or the kundalini power. Swadhistana is below the abdomen, the chakra of the lower vital. Manipura is at the navel-centre where the lower vital ends. Anahata is our heart-centre which is the seat of the psychic and the higher vital. Vishuddha is at the throat-centre, the centre of speech. Ajna chakra is located between the eyebrows. This is the seat of the ...
... in 1947-48. When Mother had finished all her work round one-thirty or two at night, my occultism class would begin. Page 237 First Mother taught me to concentrate with her on the heart-centre. Then with her help I learnt to go out of the body. After all sorts of experiences outside I returned into the body with Mother's help. This was the first lesson. Mother would always repeat ...
... Mother of the worlds" to descend into her, "to make this earthly tenement her house". The divine Mother descended into her heart and there was "a mighty movement" when the higher Power touched her heart-centre. "A naming serpent rose released from sleep". Then Page 323 every centre of her being, from top to bottom, became "surcharged with Light aid Bliss" as the Serpent-power climbed ...
... asked a question which does not hang together. Then he repeated the question. Disciple : I have heard about Raman Maharshi's experience from a direct disciple of his : "One day the heart centre opened and I began to hear "I", "I" and everywhere I saw this "I". Page 68 Disciple : Different spiritual persons say different things. How to find out which is the highest ...
... Singh's Correspondence with The Mother 10 November 1952 Ma douce Mère, Last night, with the experience of the rising of Kundalini, I saw near the heart centre a large serenely luminous crescent for quite a long while. The experience filled the being with strength and joy and a feeling of deep restful repose. I now write to you of these things so ...
... call the phenomenon a manifestation rather than a descent. A descent is in relation to the framework of an individual's existence in which various things are below and above - the mind centre, the heart-centre etc. and the "overhead" planes. Doubtless there was some rumour-mongering and not a little bemused speculation in the Ashram,' for the changes made by the Mother by hand in the printed message ...
... the psychic. The second way of opening is "the descent of the higher consciousness through the mind". The higher Page 167 consciousness, descending from above, releases the heart-centre and opens the psychic. This happens in cases in which the emotional being is not much developed, and the mind has taken the lead in the sâdhanâ. But by whichever way it comes, the psychic opening ...
... less than inner, into the compass of spirituality and establish a persistent connection with a Higher Light, Love and Power — until in an in-creasing degree they descend into one's mind, one's heart, one's centres of vitality and stream out in their pure state into the world through one's soul which feels spontaneously the Divine as its Source and Sovereign. Not philanthropy alone, but all other... are not in-different to humanity — they simply put humanity next to divinity, holding as they do that the greatest boon they can bring to the former is to become radiating centres of a Consciousness higher than the human, centres from which a luminous sweetness and strength and wisdom can flow out to ease the sorrowful, nerve the weary, enlighten the seeker and help all of them to get into touch with... spurred by your question about the responsibility for philanthropy. I have done so because I am Page 192 positive that you are in tune with the old injunction, "Love thy God with all thy heart and all thy mind and all thy body" and that therefore you vibrate sympathetically to our life here. Whatever your physical background, whatever your psychological training, whatever your ostensible ...
... Sensations in the Inner Centres It [ a pressure felt in meditation ] is what we call the pressure of the Force (the Force of the higher spiritual or divine consciousness, the Mother's Force); it comes in various forms, vibrations, currents, waves, a wide flow, a shower like rain etc. It passes to each centre in turn, the crown of the head, the forehead centre, throat, heart, navel centres down to the Muladhara... the mind and its centres so that it may enter. The mind centres are in the head, one at the top and above it, another between the eyes, a third in the throat. That is why you feel the vibration around the head and sometimes up to the neck, but not below. It is so usually, for it is only after enveloping and entering the mind that it goes below to the emotional and vital parts (heart, navel etc.)—though... )—though sometimes it is more enveloping before it enters the body. To see the light in the heart one has to go deep, but one can see light elsewhere without going in deep there. Light is often seen between the eyebrows first or in front at that level, for there is the centre of inner vision and a slight opening of it is sufficient for that—so also light is often seen round the head or above it, outside ...
... even out of the mental into the vijñānamaya body. No longer can the brain nor its corresponding mental "lotus" remain the centre of our thinking, no longer the heart nor its corresponding "lotus" the originating centre of our emotional and sensational being. The conscious centre of our being, our thought, our will and action, even the original force of our sensations and emotions rise out of the body... think, I act, I desire, I feel"; he does not even say like the sadhaka striving after unity but before he has reached it, "As appointed by Thee seated in my heart, I act." For the heart, the centre of the mental consciousness is no longer the centre of origination but only a blissful channel. He is rather aware of the Divine seated above, lord of all, adhiṣṭhita , as well as acting within him. And seated... mental being mind-sense or intelligence is the original and dominant principle. The mental being in the mind-world where he is native is in his central and determining nature intelligence; he is a centre of intelligence, a massed movement of intelligence, a receptive and radiating action of intelligence. He has the intelligent sense of his own existence, the intelligent sense of other existence than ...
... approach and know and feel him as a transcendent and universal sempiternal Person; but whatever be our way of reaching Him, the one important truth of spiritual experience is that He is in the heart and centre of all existence and all existence is in Him and to find Him is the great self-finding. Differences of credal belief are to the Hindu mind nothing more than various ways of seeing the one Self ...
... to set? Quite obviously, the idea that should gain currency is that man carries within him the seeds of perfect power, wisdom and knowledge; and these Page 58 are also at the heart or centre of all beings, since the world, the universe, is quintessentially of the same divine substance. And whoever will "live integrally this thought of the One God in all" sets the best example. More... also the mystic symbol of Théon's Cosmic Movement and appeared on the front page of its organ, Revue Cosmique. Théon's symbol was a sort of Yogachakra - a "six-pointed star containing a lotus in its centre" which evoked "among other things the union of the active and passive principles and doubtless also the Wisdom of Chaldea, of Egypt and of Hindu India". The lotus within the square formed by the i... The ascending triangle represents the aspiring answer from matter under the form of life, light and love. The junction of both - the central square - is the perfect manifestation having at its centre the Avatar of the Supreme - the lotus. The water - inside the square - represents the Multiplicity, the Creation.4 We may also conceive the lotus as standing for the opening of the human ...
... approach and know and feel Him as a transcendent and universal sempiternal Person: but whatever be our way of reaching him, the one important truth of spiritual experience is that he is in the heart and centre of all existence and all existence is in him and to find him is the great self-finding. Differences of credal belief are to the Indian mind nothing more than various ways of seeing the one Self... of the critics who affect to disparage its value. I have shown that Indian culture must be adjudged even from this alien outlook to have been the creation of a wide and noble spirit. Inspired in the heart of its being by a lofty principle, illumined with a striking and uplifting idea of individual manhood and its powers and its possible perfection, aligned to a spacious plan of social architecture, it... It is true that these things are realised by the mass of men more readily through the fervour of devotion than by a strenuous effort of thinking; but that is as it must and should be since the heart of man is nearer to the Truth than his intelligence. It is true, too, that the tendency to put too much stress on externals has always been there and worked to overcloud the deeper spiritual motive; ...
... distinguished the lower becoming more and more turbid and turbulent and fierce or more and more self-centred and selfish. These levels can best be seen by their impact on our vital being and formations there. The first, the highest one, the meeting or confluence of the Mind and the Vital is the Heart, the centre of emotion, the knot of the external or instrumental vehicle, of the frontal consciousness, behind... merely an individual, he is also a personality. He is the outcome of a twofold growth and revelation. He has outgrown the vital and climbed into Mind, and he has dived into the Heart and touched his inner soul, his true psychic centre. It is this soul that is the source of his personality. The formulation or revelation of the Psyche marks another Page 48 line of what we have been describing... envisaged, not immediately felt but is evoked as reminiscence. The Supermind, then, is the first crystallisation of the Infinite into individual centres, in the Overmind these centres at the outset become more exclusively individualised and then jealously self-centred. The next step of Descent is the Mind where the original unity and identity and harmony are disrupted to a yet greater degree, almost completely ...
... hed— the lower becoming more and more turbid and turbulent and fierce or more and more self-centred and selfish. These levels can. best be seen by their impact on our vital being and formations there. The first, the highest one, the meeting or confluence of the Mind and the Vital is the Heart, the centre of emotion, the knot of the external or instrumental vehicle, of the frontal consciousness, behind... merely an individual, he is also a personality. He is the outcome of a twofold growth and revelation. He has outgrown the vital and climbed into Mind, and he has dived into the Heart and touched his inner soul, his true psychic centre. It is this soul that is the source of his personality. The formulation or revelation of the Psyche marks another Page 47 line of what we have been describing... envisaged, not immediately felt but is evoked as a reminiscence. The Supermind, then, is the first crystallisation of the Infinite into individual centres, in the Overmind these centres at the outset become more exclusively individualised and then jealously self-centred. The next step of Descent is the Mind where the original unity and identity and harmony are disrupted to a yet greater degree, almost ...
... lower becoming more and more turbid and turbulent and fierce or more and more self-centred and selfish. These levels can best be seen by their impact on our vital being and formations there. The first, the highest one, the meeting or confluence Page 25 of the Mind and the Vital is the Heart, the centre of emotion, the knot of the external or instrumental vehicle, of the frontal consciousness... merely an individual, he is also a personality. He is the outcome of a twofold growth and revelation. He has outgrown the vital and climbed into Mind, and he has dived into the Heart and touched his inner soul, his true psychic centre. It is this soul that is the source of his personality. The formulation or revelation of the Psyche marks another line of what we have been describing as the Descent... envisaged, not immediately felt but is evoked as a reminiscence. The Supermind, then, is the first crystallisation of the Infinite into individual centres, in the Overmind these centres at the outset become more exclusively individualised and then jealously self-centred. The next step of Descent is the Mind where the original unity and identity and harmony are disrupted to a yet greater degree, almost ...
... that are helpful, the heart's and mind's reverence for the Guru, the union of the God-seekers, a spiritual compassion for this ignorant human and animal world and its peoples, the joy and happiness and satisfaction of beauty that comes from the perception of the Divine everywhere. It plunges the nature inward towards its meeting with the immanent Divine in the heart's secret centre and, while that call... movements no less than our external doings are to be consecrated on the one altar. The inner heart of all work that is made into a sacrifice is a labour of self-discipline and self-perfection by which we can hope to become conscious and luminous with a Light from above poured into all our movements of mind, heart, will, sense, life and body. An increasing light of divine consciousness will make us close... of Truth and, even, he is inclined to hold that there is no other. The heart with its emotions and incalculable movements is to the eye of his intellect an obscure, uncertain and often a perilous and misleading power which needs to be kept in control by the reason and the mental will and intelligence. And yet there is in the heart or behind it a profounder mystic light which, if not what we call intuition ...
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