... state; but these touches prepare the future permanence. The fire which you feel in the chest must surely be the psychic fire, for it is there that is the seat of the psychic and the fact that it burns strongly when you sit alone points to the same thing. The Psychic Fire The psychic fire is the fire of aspiration, purification and tapasya which comes from the psychic being. It is not the psychic... (i.e. gathering up of the consciousness and turning it fixedly towards the Divine), the psychic fire which all must pass through so as to reach the Mother permanently and completely. It is egoistic if the ego thinks that it is the psychic fire. If the consciousness feels identified with the psychic fire and becomes conscious that the fire can burn out all impurities, then it is a true experience... psychic being, but a power of the psychic being. The psychic being is a Purusha, not a flame—the psychic fire is not the being, it is something proper to it. It [ a flame in the heart as big as a man's thumb ] is the psychic fire kindled in the heart. The psychic being in the heart is described by the Upanishads as of the size of a thumb, aṅguṣṭha-mātraḥ puruṣo'ntarātmā —it may manifest first ...
... does the mind take it for the psychic fire? It is some association in the mind probably coupling Agni with the psychic. Of course the individual Agni fire has its starting point in the psychic, but the mere burning of the fire does not show that the psychic is coming forward. When it burns in the heart it is the fire in the psychic. The psychic fire is individual and takes usually... vital. Page 83 During the sadhana, has the psychic also to ascend? It joins itself to the higher consciousness. THE POWER OF AGNI AND THE PSYCHIC FIRE Coming from the Mother, I felt as if a burning transformation had started. I feel around me a burning sensation. To give an example, each of my fingers feels surrounded by a... Does it mean that there is also a working of peace? The force can also be dense in that way; but probably it is establishing the solid calm in that way. Along with the psychic fire in the heart there was Page 84 a simultaneous action of a vital fire. How is that? There is no incompatibility between them. What is it that ...
... course the psychic depth and the psychic fire. Sometimes when concentrated on the psychic centre, I feel as if I am the psychic fire itself and can burn out whatever comes in the way of sadhana. Is this not an egoistic feeling? It is egoistic if the ego thinks it is the psychic fire. If the consciousness feels identified with the psychic fire and becomes conscious that the fire... think it can be said definitely yet. There has been a change and growth of consciousness in these parts, but it has been due partly to knowledge and force from above, partly to the action of the psychic fire. It has not been done by the psychic coming forward and governing and guiding mind and vital which is a very distinct and tangible process. There has been a certain amount of psychicisation, but... If the psychic puts forth psychic discernment along with the love, then there is no danger, for the light of psychic discernment at once exposes all mixture or misuse. I feel the psychic fire and the Agni of the Self active and intense. If it were not so, an uninterrupted sadhana without any mental effort would not be possible. These are usually supposed to be dynamic things ...
... The Psychic Fire and Offering I saw a fire in my heart and my offering falling into it like bits of paper. I heard someone say: "Offer everything into the fire!" But when obscurities and resistance arise, I feel a hesitation to offer them to the Mother. The thought comes: offer the best things to the Mother, not ugly things. The fire is the purifying psychic fire. Offering to the... the psychic fire is not contrary to the worship of the Mother. To purify all in the psychic fire rather than throw the obscurities and resistance on the Mother is obviously the right way. 9 June 1936 ...
... is not the Force itself. The Force is felt as a Power and not merely a pressure. Agni and the Psychic Fire During the 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... 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 of the union of the upper Agni and the psychic fire and the push in the psychic centre - something is trying to remove the difficulty. Is it true that the passive peace can stop the lower action? The peace that descends... 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 of the union of the upper Agni and the psychic fire and the push in the psychic centre - something is trying to remove the difficulty. When I become conscious of the Fire or of Mother's Force, my heart feels a great fire deep in ...
... 1 January 1937 In Conversations the Mother says: "A fire is burning there, in Page 610 the deep quietude of the heart" [ p. 1 ]. Is this the psychic fire or the psychic being? A fire is not a being—it is the psychic fire, an intense condition of aspiration. "A fire is burning there.... It is the divinity in you—your true being. Hear its voice, follow its dictates" [ p.... voice and I try my utmost to follow its dictates. Should I doubt my feeling? No, what you feel is probably the intimation from the psychic being through the mind. To be directly conscious of the psychic fire, one must have the subtle vision and subtle sense active or else the direct action of the psychic acting as a manifest power in the consciousness. "We have all met in previous lives" [ p. 3 ...
... is all right—except that the most important thing for you is to develop the psychic fire in the heart and the aspiration for the psychic being to come forward as the leader of the sadhana. When the psychic does so, it will show you the "undetected ego-knots" of which you speak and loosen them or burn them in the psychic fire. This psychic development and the psychic change of mind, vital and physical... progress can be smooth and continuous; when there is a failure of the concentration, you come into the outward physical mind and at once there is a conflict between the growing quietude and the inner psychic fire and the physical consciousness. The quietude seeks to hold and control the physical consciousness and the fire to burn out the wrong activities and imperfections, but the consciousness finds the ...
... chance of rescuing it. Good Lord, but the Avatar correspondence belongs to the distant past, what is the use of resuscitating it now? The psychic fire you write about in the Synthesis of Yoga and the psychic being are identical? The psychic fire is the fire of aspiration, purification and tapasya which comes from the psychic being. It is not the psychic being, but a power of the psychic being... replace his mental by his above-mental capacity. But for many intellectuals, so-called, their intellectuality may be a stumbling-block as they bind themselves with mental conceptions or stifle the psychic fire under the heavy weight of rational thought. On the other hand I have seen comparatively uneducated people expressing higher knowledge with an astonishing fullness and depth and accuracy which the ...
... often there is only a tinge here and there. 20 October 1936 Psychic and Esoteric Poetry These poems are quite new in manner—simple and precise and penetrating. 1 What you describe is the psychic fire, agni pāvaka , which burns in the deeper heart and from there is lighted in the mind, the vital and the physical body. In the mind Agni creates a light of intuitive perception and discrimination... ordinary eye, hidden, occult. Is Nirvana for instance an esoteric poem? There is no veil or symbol there—it tries to state the experience as precisely and overtly as possible. The experience of the psychic fire and psychic discrimination is an intimate spiritual experience, but it is direct and simple like all psychic things. The poem which expresses it may easily be something deeply inward, esoteric in ...
... 8 August 1956 Sweet Mother, Sri Aurobindo writes: "A psychic fire within must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Name upon it." Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 155 Isn't the psychic fire always lit? It is not always lit. Then how to light it? By aspiration. By the will for progress ...
... is all right—except that the most important thing for you is to develop the psychic fire in the heart and the aspiration for the psychic being to come forward as the leader of the sadhana. When the psychic does so, it will show you the "undetected ego-knots" of which you speak and loosen them or burn them in the psychic fire. This psychic development and the psychic change of mind, vital and physical ...
... pressure upon the unconverted parts, and helping their purification and transformation. The other is in the higher consciousness, the Agni of the self; this will support the psychic fire and keep it alive all the time. For, the psychic fire, being already in the evolution, may get veiled by the lower nature, but the Agni of the self is always above the Creation and so is ever detached and dynamic. It can ...
... Fire; Fire of Sacrifice; the Fire-God; Flame of Divine Force; illumined will; Divine Will; Fire of human aspiration; flame of purification or transformation in the psychic being; psychic fire. The psychic fire is the fire of aspiration, purification and Tapasya. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Experiences Associated with the Psychic ...
... you had listened inwardly you would have heard me calling you. April 30, 1935 These poems are quite new in manner—simple and precise and penetrating. What you describe is the psychic fire, agni pāvaka, which burns in the deeper heart and from there is lighted in the mind, the vital and the physical body. In the Page 267 mind it becomes a light of intuitive perception... ordinary eye, hidden, occult. Is "Nirvana" for instance an esoteric poem? There is no veil or symbol there—it tries to state the experience as precisely and overtly as possible. The experience of the psychic fire and psychic discrimination is an intimate spiritual experience, but it is direct and simple like all psychic things. The poem which expresses it may easily be something deeply inward, esoteric in ...
... from it in order to save it. Strange to say, afterwards the steamer seemed to be all right and already sailing away! Has the dream anything to do with the psychic fire? It cannot have been the psychic fire because then there would have been no need to save the steamer. You wrote the other day: "The subconscient is there, so long as it is not enlightened ...
... glorious hundred years, Trying to be a forerunner and discoverer Of Beauty's sunlit ways, chanting the Soul's anthem. Carrying fiery poetic words for wiping out tears? Your inner psychic fire, the sublime Pavakagni, Is observed by a few to be blazing forth In the deepest recesses of your noble heart; Others get glimpses of your beatific soul-journey. Your marvellous ...
... within it the Rose of Love whose supreme existence is in Eternity shall manifest in earth and beatify no less than beautify our life. Here two more quotations from Sri Aurobindo will be apt. "A psychic fire within must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Name upon it. In that fire all the emotions are compelled to cast off their grosser elements and those that are undivine per-versions ...
... psychic-vital seeks after the Divine, but it has a demand in its self-giving, desire, vital eagerness the psychic has not, for the psychic has instead pure self-giving, aspiration, intensity of psychic fire. The psychic-vital is subject to pain and suffering, which there is not in the psychic. Atma is not the same as psychic—Atma is the self which is one in all, calm, wide, ever at peace, always ...
... and joy, capable of being transmuted into Ananda. Equality and calm in the mind and vital parts, an intense psychic emotion in the heart can perfectly go together. Awake by your aspiration the psychic fire in the heart that burns steadily towards the Divine—that is the one way to liberate and fulfil the emotional nature. Emotion is necessary in the Yoga and it is only the excessive emotional ...
... 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 of the union of the upper Agni and the psychic fire and the push on the psychic centre—something is trying to remove the difficulty. The Power above the head is of course the Mother's—it is the power of the Higher Consciousness which is preparing ...
... satisfying any vital desire with the help of the Yogic force, then the psychic cannot open, or opens only partially or only at times and shuts again because it is veiled by the vital activities; the psychic fire fails in the strangling vital smoke. Also, if the mind takes the leading part in the Yoga and puts the inner soul into the background, or, if the bhakti or other movements of the sadhana take more ...
... replace his mental by his above-mental capacity. But for many intellectuals, so-called, their intellectuality may be a stumbling block as they bind themselves with mental conceptions or stifle the psychic fire under the heavy weight of rational thought. On the other hand I have seen comparatively uneducated people expressing higher knowledge with an astonishing fullness and depth and accuracy which the ...
... aspiration are the simplest and most effective means by which the soul can be made ready and fit to be in the abiding presence of the Divine. 11 February 1946 To light always and keep alight the psychic fire within, the fire of aspiration, devotion and self-giving—not to stifle it with the damp smouldering logs of vital desire and egoistic reactions. If that becomes permanent and continuous, then it ...
... dead man? What can one accomplish without fire, zeal, enthusiasm? Page 46 Zeal and enthusiasm are all right and very necessary but the spiritual condition combines calm with intensity. Psychic fire is different—what you are speaking of here is the rajasic vital fire of self-assertion, aggressive self-defence, exerting lawful rights etc. Fire is the active expression of solid strength. ...
... and I try my utmost to follow its dictates. Should I doubt my feeling? No, what you feel is probably the intimation from the psychic being through the mind. To be directly conscious of the psychic fire, one must have the subtle vision and subtle sense active or else the direct action of the psychic acting as a manifest power in the consciousness. "We have all met in previous lives." 5 ...
... satisfying any vital desire with the help of the Yogic force, then the psychic cannot open, or opens only partially or only at times and shuts again because it is veiled by the vital activities; the psychic fire fails in the strangling vital smoke. Also, if the mind takes the leading part in the Yoga and puts the inner soul into the background, or if the Bhakti or other movements of the Sadhana take more ...
... Therefore, in most human beings the psychic being acts as an unconscious influence rather than as a conscious Presence. However, though covered over and dominated by mind, vital and physical, the psychic fire is never extinguished by them, for the psychic being is the eternal self "that carries the consciousness from life to life" (p. 16). It is the true and persistent individual whereas our normal self ...
... only an influence, not conscious enough or strong enough to support the spiritual life. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Himself and the Ashram: Admission to the Ashram What you describe is the psychic fire, agni pāvaka , which burns in the deeper heart and from there is lighted in the mind, the vital and the physical body. In the mind Agni creates a light of intuitive perception and discrimination ...
... thirst, a need, a need. All the rest has no importance; it is that one has need of. Source The Joy of Progress It is the will for progress and self-purification which lights the [psychic] fire. The will for progress. Those who have a strong will, when they turn it towards spiritual progress and purification, automatically light the fire within themselves. And each defect one wants ...
... within it the Rose of Love whose supreme existence is in Eternity shall manifest in earth and beatify no less than beautify our life. Here two more quotations from Sri Aurobindo will be apt. "A psychic fire within must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Name upon it. In that fire all the emotions are compelled to cast off their grosser elements and those that are undivine 1 ...
... be a flame, but it's also called the Secret Purusha. The image is then correct? Of course the image is quite legitimate for the psychic being. The psychic being is a Purusha, not a flame—the psychic fire is not the being, it is something proper to it. June 8, 1935 We had a discussion on Divine Love yesterday at D's place, Can we say the Divine may love one more than another? The expression ...
... prophetic manifests of the Kingdom of God on earth. O wonder Spirit of Beauty, by your active Presence is now a reality. A new muted race still wearing the human face glowing with the psychic Fire appears on the horizon to change this nightmare Into an exquisite radiant dream. 34 - 35 Birds of Paradise One day, the immortal Soul ...
... l Master, penetrate all our being and transfigure it so that Thou alone livest in us and by us!" With my blessings.* The Mother 11.2.47 To light always and keep alight the psychic fire within, the fire of aspiration, devotion and self-giving -not to stifle it with the damp smouldering logs of vital desire and egoistic reactions. If that becomes permanent and continuous, then it ...
... 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 us aware of the Divine within us and of the higher Truth ...
... you towards the Truth. But it could not come forward and lead your life because you have too much suppressed your emotional nature, dried up your surface mind and choked up with much rubbish the psychic fire. If once it can awaken entirely and come in front, it can transform the dynamic mental, the vital and the physical mind and through them make you an illumined instrument for the physical realisation ...
... psychic-vital seeks after the Divine, but it has a demand in its self-giving, desire, vital eagerness. The psychic has not, for the psychic has instead pure self-giving, aspiration, intensity of psychic fire. The psychic-vital is subject to pain and suffering, which there is not in the psychic. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Psychic Being People mean different things when they speak ...
... and joy, capable of being transmuted into Ananda. Equality and calm in the mind and vital parts, an intense psychic emotion in the heart can perfectly go together. Awake by your aspiration the psychic fire in the heart that burns steadily towards the Divine—that is the one way to liberate and fulfil the emotional nature. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - II: Bhakti, Devotion, Worship It is ...
... consciously receptive. 8 May 1934 After today's Pranam I experienced an unimaginable depth in the heart and a great fire bursting out of it. That is of course the psychic depth and the psychic fire. 5 May 1936 Today when I was making pranam, I felt that this body must be crushed to pieces and laid at the Mother's feet. I also felt an emotion in my heart. What is the meaning of this ...
... satisfying any vital desire with the help of the yogic force, then the psychic cannot open, or opens only partially or only at times and shuts again because it is veiled by the vital activities; the psychic fire fails in the strangling vital smoke. Also, if the mind takes the leading part in the yoga and puts the inner soul into the background, or if the bhakti or other movements of the sadhana take more ...
... depression and disappointment. As for the calm and equality needed, it must come down from above through the mind. That [ fiery aspiration ] is all right, that is the psychic aspiration, the psychic fire. Where the vital comes in is in the impatience for result and dissatisfaction if the result is not immediate. That must cease. Aspiration and Desire One should be satisfied with what one gets ...
... one must not depend on one's own efforts only, but succeed in establishing a contact with the Divine and a receptivity to the Mother's Power and Presence. A Fire in the heart is usually the psychic fire and that should rather grow and be fed by the tendency or aspiration to the personal sadhana. The main principle of the personal sadhana is the surrender, the aspiration to the Divine touch, presence ...
... [ in a mystic poem submitted by the correspondent ] are very usual symbols of the inner experience, but they have been combined together here in a rather difficult way. The fire of course is the psychic fire which wells up from the veiled psychic source. The bird is the soul and the flower is the rose of love and surrender. The moon is the symbol of spirituality. As the star is within it is described ...
... February 1932 Nishikanta The separate images are very usual symbols of the inner experience, but they have been combined together here in a rather difficult way. The fire of course is the psychic fire which wells up from the veiled psychic source. The bird is the soul and the flower is the rose of love and surrender. The moon is the symbol of spirituality. As the star is within it is described ...
... body and even the sense of the body disappears, the limited personal consciousness is lost in the Cosmic Existence. You had all this first in the impersonal way, but after the burning up of the psychic fire, you felt the Personal wideness, the cosmic consciousness of the Divine Mother and received her blessing. If your consciousness rises above the head, that means that it goes beyond the ordinary ...
... Divine is imperative. This is the intensest way of purification for the human heart, more powerful than any ethical or aesthetic catharsis could ever be by its half-power and superficial pressure. A psychic fire within must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Name upon it. In that fire all the emotions are compelled to cast off their grosser elements and those that are undivine perversions are ...
... যেমন চেতনা খুলে খুলে যায়, দেখবার ও সাধনা কৰ্বার ধরণও বদলে যায় ৷ যা অজ্ঞানের, অহংকারের, প্রাণের বাসনার মিশ্রণ সাধনায় ছিল, তাহা খসে যেতে আরম্ভ করে ৷ 20.4.34 অভিজ্ঞতাগুলি ভাল – এই অগ্নি psychic fire – আর যে অবস্থার বর্ণনা করেছ সে অবস্থা psychic condition, যার মধ্যে অশুদ্ধ কিছু আসতে পারে না ৷ 23.4.34 এই চিন্তা ও এই স্বপ্ন বােধ হয় “ম”র মন থেকে এসে অলক্ষিতে তােমার অবচেতনায় পশে প্রকাশ ...
... personality. That like the mind may Page 347 believe and then lose its belief, doubt comes from the mind, the vital and the physical consciousness. [The greater the intensity] of the psychic fire, the less will be the power of doubt to soil and darken the mind, the life and the consciousness of the body. 137 Three are the words that sum up the first state of the Yoga of devotion ...
... a little afraid of the gloom it is likely to bring in its train and just on the eve of my birthday at that. If come it must, try to send me a little force that the suffering should reawake my psychic fire which had lately fallen asleep, I believe, in my latter-day cheerfulness. Cheerfulness, Guru ? I have had a taste of it for two months. But a quoi bon ? [What's the use ?]—this question occurs ...
... We shall come to the discussion of these points in right time in course of this essay. For the moment let us briefly state that a veritable aspiration represents the pure and sacred flame of the psychic fire rising from the depths of consciousness. But this fire envelopes our heart and mind and body too and then mounts upward with an unwavering orientation. Under its vivifying influence all the different ...
... diary relating to this period: 2.3.1933: [Received the flower] SINCERITY* Morning: pranam time: prayed for intense divine consciousness. Mother answered .... 13.5.1933: FAITH; PSYCHIC FIRE. Saw the Mother today. Mother decided to give me room in Z. house so that I might go to the terrace in the evenings (to stay there as long as she was on the terrace). Spoke about skambha ...
... world's past to assimilate and overpass before I could find and found the future.² Zeal and enthusiasm are all right and very necessary but the spiritual condition combines calm with intensity. Psychic fire is different – what you are speaking of here is the rajasic vital fire of self-exertion, aggressive self-defence, exerting lawful rights, etc. I speak from my own experience. I have solid strength ...
... my blessings, THE MOTHER (Translated from the original message in French.) Page 100 Page 101 11.2.47 To light always and keep alight the psychic fire within, the fire of aspiration, devotion and self-giving - not to stifle it with the damp smouldering logs of vital desire and egoistic reactions. If that becomes permanent and continuous, then ...
... can rise into higher ranges to overmind and supermind or gnosis. The uncertain and stumbling mental will has to rise towards the sure intuitive and into a higher divine and gnostic will, the psychic sweetness, fire and light of the soul behind the heart, hṛdaye guhāyām , has to alchemise our crude emotions and the hard egoisms and clamant desires of our vital nature. All our other members have to pass ...
... on the clustered memories of the dark outer consciousness); within the heart there is the beginning of a trance, of change opening to the caves of the luminous deep of the psychic (hridaye guhâyâm) 214 with its psychic fires. See? But that is only a clue for the mind to follow—this significance can rather be felt than understood. R.B. has no pain, but no appetite at all! Shall I try small doses... chilled spirit and reveals Before its gaze Columns of fire immensities..." Why should the bird want to go into fire? Hot bath after cold one? "... The awakened bird Now voyages with foam-white sails, That vision stirred!" A bird with sails is unknown to zoology! Or do you mean that the bird hires a sailing vessel to go into the fires? Lazy beast! And what is it that is stirred by the vision... ideas like grim death, his mind refusing to understand my ideas and wilfully misunderstanding them. Thus he took supermind for the Vedantic Nirguna Brahman, something dry and high and cold, and the psychic for a pale udasin nirlipta 216 business with no flame in it and persisted in such absurd ideas in spite of my denials. That obviously was not helpful. I fear my capacity also is very poor in ...
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