... derives from the Divine Love. The psychic love is pure and full of self-giving without egoistic demand, but it is human and can err and suffer. The Divine Love is something much vaster and deeper and full of light and ananda. Psychic Love When there is no demand or desire, only love and self-giving, that is the psychic love. Psychic love is quite satisfying, and it can change even... sea—for then no love or devotion is possible unless it is love of oneself, devotion to oneself. Universal Love and Psychic Love Universal love is always universal—psychic love can individualise itself. Cosmic love depends on the realisation of oneness of self with all. Psychic love or feeling for all can exist without this realisation. The oneness with all in its basis is something se... spiritual. By becoming divine in nature [ one can love divinely ]; there is no other way. Page 335 Divine Love and Psychic Love The Divine's love is that which comes from above poured down from the Divine Oneness and its Ananda on the being—psychic love is a form taken by divine love in the human being according to the needs and possibilities of the human consciousness. If love ...
... life. When psychic love is united with the divine Love and the psychic will with the divine Will, there is no limit to the possibilities of divine manifestation. All knowledge is within the reach of psychic love, and all power of effectuation. Whenever and where- ever the divine Light or the divine force has been brought down into human life, it has been invariably by the power of psychic love, and not... learn the distinction between Spiritual love and psychic love: "The love that belongs to the spiritual planes is of a different kind—the psychic has its own more personal love, bhakti, surrender. Love in the higher or spiritual mind is more universal and impersonal. The two must go together to make the highest divine love."² Psychic love springs from a living sense of essential identity... to the development of psychic love, but in themselves they are incapable of reaching the Divine Love and bringing it down to transform human life. The mind's interest and aspiration may be damped by the frosts of life, and the heart's ardours even ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother Jan. 30, 1914. Page 347 may be quenched, but the psychic love, once awakened knows no ...
... illustration of the psychic love, we can already discern in them something transcending it, some wider, mightier, sovereign Love, occupying the Mother's consciousness, shaping, stimulating and transmuting her psychic love into its own image and pouring out upon the world to redeem and illumine it. Let us quote another Prayer in which this process of dynamic union between the psychic love and the Divine's... enclosed in the dim cell of his reason, to deny the eternal Fount above and swear by the temporal waters on which he is so helplessly tossed. Psychic Love The most sincere and poignant expression of love for the Divine is essentially psychic. It is the soul in man that alone can pierce through the veil of appearances and deliver itself to... else—love which is, in Dante's words, The increate perpetual thirst that draws Towards the realms of God's own form...¹ In some of the Prayers and Meditations of the Mother this psychic love finds an exquisitely sweet and melting expression : "Like a flame that burns in silence, like a perfume that rises straight upward without wavering, my love goes to Thee, and like the child ...
... meant by psychic love. Love is love and not merely goodwill. Psychic love can have a warmth and a flame as intense and more intense than the vital, only it is a pure fire, not dependent on the satisfaction of ego-desire or on the eating up of the fuel it embraces. It is a white flame, not a red one; but white heat is not inferior to the red variety in its ardour. It is true that the psychic love does not... distorted: already it is no longer love, it is beginning to be passion. And this is an almost universal error among human beings. Some people are full of a very pure, very high, very selfless psychic love and yet they know nothing about it and think they are cold, dry and without love because this admixture of vital vibration is absent. For them love begins and ends with this vibration. And as... has deserted them. As I said, some people are quite beyond that, they have been able to control it in such a way that it does not get mixed up with anything else; they have in themselves this psychic love which is full of self-forgetfulness, of self-giving, compassion, generosity, nobility of life, and is a great power of identification. So most of these people think they are cold or indifferent—they ...
... who have some faith without love, though they may have a certain kind of mental bhakti, and plenty who have some love but no faith. But if it is the true psychic love, then faith goes with it, and if there is the entire faith, then the psychic love becomes soon awake. Speaking with X, I said: "Where there is faith in the Mother, there is love as well." You are right—if it is the soul's faith... itself be the psychic state. 5 December 1934 I pray: "Dear Mother, either give me psychic love or give me death. Let no third thing come to me. This is my final resolution." This is altogether the wrong attitude. It is once more the vital coming in—it is not a psychic attitude. If in asking for the psychic love, you take an attitude that is vital not psychic, how do you expect the psychic to come... of feeling is it that makes one feel the Mother's presence in the heart, even though one is physically far from her? Psychic. How shall I be able to judge that I am in the full state of psychic love? By the absence of ego, by pure devotion, by submission and surrender to the Divine. 9 May 1933 When all is calm and quiet I feel a depth in my heart; a sweet feeling wells out constantly ...
... very good thing and desirable— [one has only to consider what a changed place the Ashram would be if all had it for each other.] 43 But that is not what is meant by psychic love. Love is love and not merely goodwill. Psychic love can have a warmth and a flame as intense and more intense than the vital, only it is a pure fire, not dependent on the satisfaction of ego-desire or on the eating up... one; but white heat is not inferior to the red variety in its ardour. It is true that the psychic love does not usually get its full play in human relations and human nature, it finds the fullness of its fire and ecstasy more easily when it is lifted towards the Divine. In the human relation the psychic love gets mixed up with other elements which seek at once to use it and overshadow it. It gets... preparation of the real thing, an integral union of the soul and its instruments in a dual life. But even some imperfect appearance of that is rare. Page 125 [Here we do not talk of psychic love between sadhaks, for the reason that that comes usually to be employed as a cover and excuse for things that are not at all psychic and have no place in the spiritual life.] Our view is that ...
... afterwards it changes into pure psychic love, joy, etc. For if he does not begin this way, how will he proceed? He doesn't usually. He begins and ends with the vital love except when the vital changes into vital dislike, hatred, revolt, repugnance, contempt or indifference. Why should it change into pure psychic love etc.? And why should a man not start with psychic love, joy etc.? There are very... creatures do, but of a sadhak whose business is to transform himself and therefore to get rid of this lower mixture. How to differentiate universal love from psychic love? Universal love is always universal - psychic love can individualise itself. 1 1 In another letter Sri Aurobindo wrote, "The psychic has its own more personal love, bhakti, surrender." Page... Ananda of the higher consciousness. Love and devotion depend on the opening of the psychic and for that the desires must go. The vital love offered by many to the Mother instead of the psychic love brings more disturbance than anything else because it is coupled with desire. Do love, devotion and surrender belong only to the psychic being? Have they nothing to do with the higher ...
... doing good. Then one is always happy, whatever happens. 23 September 1936 Someone told me that if one feels Your presence it is because one has a psychic love for You. It is not impossible to feel the Presence without having psychic love. But it must be rather exceptional. 24 September 1936 I am starting to study the history of literature. I have found that I can't understand Corneille... step towards the widening and illumination of the consciousness. 25 May 1934 Page 40 Sweet Mother! When will the vital yearn for the Divine? May its passion be changed into psychic love, its anger into Equanimity its jealousy into Trust its vanity into Modesty its selfishness into Self-giving. 26 May 1934 X used to go home with me after lunch... a psychic being, but not everyone loves You. Either because they are not conscious of their psychic being, or because they do not know me. Have I stopped bargaining with my love now? Psychic love never bargains—but the vital always tries to derive some benefit for itself in all circumstances. Is it only my psychic being that loves You? To the extent that the mind, vital and physical ...
... meant by psychic love. Love is love and not merely goodwill. Psychic love can have a warmth and a flame as intense and more intense than the vital, only it is a pure fire, not dependent on the satisfaction of ego-desire or on the eating up of the fuel it embraces. It is a white flame, not a red one; but white heat is not inferior to the red variety in its ardour. It is true that the psychic love does not... other parts is the true thing, good for the spiritual life, only when in the vital love is changed into a form of the psychic love and becomes an instrument for the transformation of the soul's love, no longer for the desires of the ego which men call love. Vital Love and Psychic Love Ordinary human love is vital, emotional and physical and always egoistic—a form of self-love. The psychic element... difficult to define its [ psychic love's ] limits or to recognise it. For even when there is the psychic love for another person, it gets in the human being so mixed up with the vital that it is the commonest thing to justify a vital love by claiming for it a psychic character. One could say that psychic love is distinguished by an essential purity and selflessness—but the vital can put on a very brilliant ...
... emotions on the one supreme object of love. 2) Is there anything like psychic love? There is such a thing as psychic love, pure, without demand, sincere in self-giving — but it is not usually left pure in the attraction of human beings .to one another. One must also be on one's guard against the profession of psychic love when one is doing sadhana, — for that is most often a cloak and justification ...
... alone has warmth and the psychic is something frigid without any flame in it. A clear limpid goodwill is a very good and desirable thing. But that is not what is meant by psychic love. Love is love and not merely goodwill. Psychic love can have a warmth and a flame as intense and more intense than the vital, only it is a pure fire, not dependent on the satisfaction of ego-desire or on the eating up of... 57 white heat is not inferior to the red variety in its ardour. It is true that the psychic love does not usually get its full play in human relations and human nature; it finds the fullness of its fire and ecstasy more easily when it is lifted towards the Divine. In the human relation the psychic love gets mixed up with other elements which seek at once to use it and overshadow it. It gets an... distorted: already it is no longer love, it is beginning to be passion. And this is an almost universal error among human beings. Some people are full of a very pure, very high, very selfless psychic love and yet they know nothing about it and think they are cold, dry and without love because this admixture of vital vibration is absent. For them love begins and ends with this vibration. ...
... objectivising, and Thou art there without a possible doubt, for all becomes a Holy Peace and a Sacred Silence. "And that is better than all the meditations in the world."¹ THE PSYCHIC LOVE The psychic love is a radiant flower of identity, and yet in the very heart of identity it maintains a mysterious relation of love and devotion with the Divine; for, if it merged in the Divine and... Him; and between these two poles, her psychic love aspires for Him. This duality in unity, this difference in identity, incomprehensible to the human mind, is a source of infinite bliss to the psychic, permitting, as it does, a constant union and communion, without which the psychic mission of manifesting the Divine would not be possible. The psychic love is a constant oblation and an unfailing... companionship." But where shall we look for the most perfect illustrations of the true psychic poise, the true psychic attitude, the mysterious persistence of the rapturous relation of the psychic love and devotion in the midst of a rapt ¹There is always a mental or vital alloy in such a one-sided seeking. Page 177 divine union, the psychic control and transformation of nature ...
... becomes a worship and a yearning of the heart for the unattainable beauty. In the human love the heart tries to enclose in itself all that it desires, but the psychic love is the heart's self-offering, pure and disinterested. "The psychic love is pure and full of self-giving without egoistic demand."6 Because there is no vital desire the poet knows that the heart's worship will not be rejected by Heaven... has also to take place through language, and our language is normally a poor instrument for expressing anything that goes deeper and further than our physical, vital and mental experiences. The psychic love has to use the metaphor of the human love. "The Song of Solomon" can be taken as an example of psychic poetry which "seems to sing earthly beauty, but intends to suggest another beauty that abolishes... 6. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga , SABCL, Vol. 23, p. 764. 7. Albert Beguin, Poesie de la presence, Paris 1957, p. 70. Page 349 This is the poetry of psychic love with an erotic undertone. This is the voice of the lover who rejoices in the union with the beloved and feels that without him she is but a soulless body. "The direct psychic touch is not ...
... human love and then through the psychic love, satisfying some of our desires and demands in the beginning. For it is only so that our weak human bullock cart can proceed. But farther on when the bullocks perceive, on the way, that too great a thing called Divine Love they are frightened and fall down by the sudden shock. Then the Divine Mother showers on them the psychic love which lifts them up. And the... felt as too great a thing for the rest of the journey. For the Divine Love contains everything and can stand on anything. All that is quite correct. Even the ordinary human or the psychic love many are unable to feel or understand because it is not quite in the ordinary human way. PSYCHIC AND DIVINE LOVE The psychic never feels that it cannot love the Divine... then about the love in the vital itself? The love in the vital or other parts is the true thing, good for the spiritual life, only when in the vital love is changed into a form of the psychic love and becomes an instrument Page 204 for the manifestation of the soul's love, no longer for the desires of the ego which men call love. The present growth of ...
... still higher thing. Before divine Love and Ananda can be made to settle, there is much more that is to be done — first the psychic love must be there and other things besides. How would you distinguish the psychic love from the divine love? The psychic love is pure and full of self-giving without Page 89 egoistic demands, but it is human and can err and... this Divine Darkness. It is a Christian idea. For us the Divine is Peace, Purity, Wide-ness. Light, Ananda. A sadhaka need not give himself to an outsider, but can he express his psychic love to him? I would also like to know from you if the sadhaka might help him to rise higher. It is safer not to indulge in such activities. One is more likely to be drawn into the other's ...
... Mother told me: "No, the horse is not mad; he will not bite you." What is the meaning of this dream? Rose is the colour of psychic love—the horse is dynamic power. So the rosy coloured horse means that the Mother was bringing with her the dynamic power of psychic love. 3 August 1933 Today while meditating in the Pranam hall I saw: The sky is filled with blue light. From the sky a long path ...
... things [ love and sex-desire ] are so near each other and have been so much twined together in the animal beginnings of the race that it is not easy to keep them altogether separate. In the pure psychic love there is no trace of the sex-desire, but usually the vital affection gets very strongly associated with the psychic which is then mixed though still not sexual; but the vital affection and the vital... of a wrong vital movement with the psychic movement. Lust is the perversion or degradation which prevents love from establishing its reign; so Page 490 when there is the movement of psychic love in the heart, lust or vital desire is the one thing that must not be allowed to come in—just as when strength comes down from above, personal ambition and pride have to be kept far away from it; ...
... clear, first, that divine love and psychic love both needed a complete expression and that vital and physical love were their necessary complements and were both a part of that complete expression. At any rate, if that was not clear in my letter, I want to make it clear now,—as also that physical darshan etc. are quite legitimate means of expression of the psychic love itself and, a fortiori , of the ...
... plunge headlong into the Mother's lap, saying, "Mother, make me or mar, I am eternally Thine. I love Thee, I cannot exist without Thee. I want nothing else, I want only to love Thee". The psychic love makes no demands. It takes the Mother's smiles and frowns with perfect equality ; it regards Her blows as Her transforming blessings. This is the attitude of the child. It does not reason, it does... what infinite ecstasy She can shower from Her Love—what love, what peace, what Light! I can confess to you that if I don't love Her and feel Her Presence even for a day, I shall cease to exist. The psychic love, the psychic attitude, the psychic self-giving, the psychic faithfulness and obedience—this is the only path to the Divine Life on earth. This is what Sri Aurobindo calls the sun-lit path. And it ...
... -dweṣa from the emotional mind may lead to one of the three following results: (1) "a neutral condition of blank indifference," (2) "a luminous state of peaceful impartiality" and (3) a universal psychic love and an un- troubled sweetness and clarity, receiving and responding Page 257 to all contacts of the world with an equal delight. In the Integral Yoga there is no nirodha or suppression... emergence and increasing control of the psychic or the soul, and (2) the sincerity and completeness of the surrender of our integral being to the Consciousness-Force of the Mother. Psychic detachment, psychic love and devotion and psychic offering are the most effective means of delivering the nature-parts from the darkness of egoistic ignorance and initiating in them the reign of Light and Love and Bliss ...
... and not rich, not truly love. Shelley says in substance, "Human vital love is a poor inferior thing, a counterfeit of true love, which I cannot offer to you. But there is a greater thing, a true psychic love, all worship and devotion, which men do not readily value, being led away by the vital glamour, but which the heavens do not reject, though it is offered from something so far below them, so maimed... bargain but giving itself simply and spontaneously, not moved to or broken by misunderstandings, disappointments, strife and anger, but pressing always straight towards the inner union. It is this psychic love that is closest to the divine and it is therefore the right and best way of love and bhakti. But that does not mean that the other parts of the being, the vital and physical included, are not to... unbargaining, ungrudging and very absolute in its dedication and this is akin to the psychic and well-fitted to be its complement and a means of expression of the divine love. And neither does the psychic love or the divine love despise a physical means of expression wherever that is pure and right and possible; it does not depend upon that, it does not diminish, revolt or go out like a snuffed candle ...
... What did this mean? Reddish-pink is the colour of psychic love and indicates "Surrender". I believe I have to put my head under the power of the surrender which is the natural movement of the deep soul's loving self-gift to the Divine. Perhaps the Mother meant that she was herself giving me the capacity of a full self-giving of all my mind in psychic love to her? The sense of "full" is shown by the nu ...
... clear, first that divine love and psychic love both needed a complete expression and that vital and physical love were their necessary complements and were both a part of that complete expression. At any rate, if that was not clear in my letter, I want to make it clear now,—as also that physical darshan, etc. are quite legitimate means of expression of the psychic love itself and, a fortiori, of the ...
... or Rose Light The rosy light is that of love—so probably you entered the psychic worlds—or at least one of them. The colour of the psychic light is according to what it manifests—e.g., psychic love is pink or rose, the psychic purity is white etc. Green Light Green is the higher light in the vital, especially the emotional vital. The green light is a vital force, a dynamic force... it does not mean the light of the physical consciousness) indicates always some kind of Force or Power, but what power it is depends on the shade. Deep red is the Divine Love—rosy is the psychic love. The deep red is the light of the Power that descended before the 24th [ November 1933 ] for the transformation of the physical. The deep red light is a Light that came down into the ...
... the blue lotus ] can be taken as the (Avatar) incarnation on the mental plane. Other Flowers The red rose is the flower of love and surrender, the white is the purity of psychic love. Reddish pink rose = psychic love or surrender. White rose = pure spiritual surrender. The java [ red hibiscus ] is the flower of the Divine Power. The [ flower named ] eternal smile 3 means ...
... example, the ordinary sentimental pity is not the same as what is called 'psychic compassion'. The latter is a much deeper compassion than pity. So also 'psychic love' is not the same as what generally passes for love. There is an unselfishness in psychic love; it is always free from all demands — it has no vital claims. Even psychic 'unselfishness,' is not the same as the ordinary unselfishness. There is ...
... from yourself all sadness and all sentimental weakness. Sweet Mother, I am happy because I love You and because I suffer a little in loving You. I don't see the need of your suffering. Psychic love is always peaceful and joyous; it is the vital which dramatises and makes Page 171 itself unhappy without any reason. I hope, indeed, that you will soon become conscious of my presence... be called a loss; I consider it an inestimable gain. A love which is sufficiently strong can make a person the slave of the beloved. You speak here of vital love, but certainly not of psychic love and still less of the Divine Love. The person I love belongs to me. This is a very ugly love, quite egoistic. The Ashram is not a place for being in love with anyone. If you want ...
... distorted: already it is no longer love, it is beginning to be passion. And this is an almost universal error among human beings. Some people are full of a very pure, very high, very selfless psychic love and yet they know nothing about it and think they are cold, dry and without love because this admixture of vital vibration is absent. For them love begins and ends with this vibration. And as... has deserted them. As I said, some people are quite beyond that, they have been able to control it in such a way that it does not get mixed up with anything else; they have in themselves this psychic love which is full of self-forgetfulness, of self-giving, compassion, generosity, nobility of life, and is a great power of identification. So most of these people think they are cold or indifferent—they ...
... one has the need to pour out. Still another kind, again expansive, is the Hitlerian vital, catching hold of other people in its grip. NIRODBARAN: Does psychic love ever catch hold like that? SRI AUROBINDO: Of course not! The law of psychic love is to give without making any demand. ...
... being Gleamed; the deep twilights of the world-abyss Failed below. Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Thought the Paraclete ============= Psychic love is distinguished by an essential purity and selflessness, ... Psychic love does not exclude discrimination. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV: Human Relations and the Spiritual Life In connection with the China rose ...
... Page 191 This is my appeal to the Mother: Either give me the psychic love or death. Let no third thing come to me — a final resolution. That is altogether the wrong attitude. It is once more the vital coming in — it is not a psychic attitude. If in asking for the psychic love, you take an attitude that is vital not psychic, how do you expect the psychic to come ...
... Divine,—a white psychic flame burning in unabated intensity, second, the aspect of the Divine's Love in her,—the dazzling sun-fire, clothed in flesh, and, third, the two fires combined, the psychic love and the divine, pouring out upon the world, upon all mankind, in an unceasing flood of regenerating and transforming force. The three aspects, like the three strands of a string, are intertwined;... divine message of hope and peace.” The Mother's aspiration was fulfilled beyond measure : the divine Love prepared her whole being, part by part, hour by hour, till it became a pure flame of psychic love quivering in the embrace of the sempiternal fire of the Love Divine. "My love for Thee, O Lord, it is Thyself, and yet my love bows down religiously before Thee ” Once she became the ...
... time comes in the life of a woman when to surrender herself she feels it as fulfillment, even physically. Disciple : Has such a physical relation a place in psychic love? Sri Aurobindo : It depends. It can be the psychic love extended to the body. In the psychic relation physical relation is possible; when it takes place it is for procreation. It is a part of the attitude of a female to ...
... the ordinary sentimental pity is not the same as what is called "psychic compassion". The latter is a much deeper compassion than pity. So also psychic love is not the same as what generally passes for love. There is an unselfishness in psychic love; it is always free from all demands – it has no vital claims. Even psychic unselfishness is not the same as the ordinary unselfishness. There is ...
... special consideration etc. Also it wanted nice, pleasing and elaborate answers. All that is the usual wrong attitude of the vital which is the stumbling-block for so many sadhaks and prevents true psychic love from developing, replacing it by the vital kind full of demand, ego, jealousy, revolt etc.—and it has been the ruin of some. All that you had thrown out of the higher parts, and quieted it elsewhere ...
... oneness—just as the mental perception of the Divine is not the same thing as the spiritual realisation. The consciousness of one plane is different from the consciousness of another. Spiritual and psychic love are different from mental, vital or physical love—so with everything else. So too with the perception of oneness and its effects. That is why the different planes have their importance; otherwise ...
... becoming more and more of a psychic character. Love and devotion to the Divine is the central feeling of the psychic nature and that is growing in you towards the Mother, pervading your being. A psychic love towards all is also emerging; this love is a thing inward and does not seek to express itself outwardly like the vital love which men usually have. The psychic and spiritual attitude is also not ...
... vision or feeling of the Divine Ananda without seeking for possession or a gross outer enjoyment, it would have established a Yogic consciousness and made a base for knowledge and peace and power and psychic love and surrender to come down. The Cosmic Consciousness and the Physical One cannot be high in the cosmic consciousness unless one has taken one's station above the body in a cosmic wideness ...
... The colour of the fire coming out from each one indicates the consciousness; white (the Mother's Light), red (Divine Love), Green (Vital Energy), yellow (Mind Plane), blue (Illumined Mind), pink (Psychic Love), golden (Light of Divine Truth). The Asura represents the evil forces that are at work even in the premises of the Ashram; they even want to destroy the samadhi and the Symbolic Yajnavedi ( ...
... and not rich, not truly love. Shelley says in substance: "Human vital love is a poor inferior thing, a counterfeit of true love, which I cannot offer you. But there is a greater thing, a true psychic love, all worship and devotion, which men do not readily value, being led away by the vital glamour, but which the Heavens do not reject though it is offered from something so far below them, so maimed ...
... the Vedic Rishis but thrown into the background by the intermediate ages. In the Vedantic yoga which was developed by Sri Caitanya, a new element in the synthesis was added by means of which the psychic love for the divine consciousness could inundate the mind, life and the body. In the nineteenth century, Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa and Swami Vivekananda have provided a vast system of synthesis ...
... outer vital, because that vital thinks it is a negative state of indifference and non-attachment, things that it hates because liking and disliking are its native atmosphere. But with having psychic love for all, is there also going to be any pure divine love for a particular one? But first you must realise what the "pure divine" love is! Of course new friendships may come up and old ones ...
... pouring out the vital force. But there is again another kind of expansive vital which is the Hitlerian vital, catching hold of other people and keeping them under one’s grip Disciple : Is psychic love of that nature? Sri Aurobindo : Of course not. The law of the psychic is to give without making any demand. 21-12-1938 Disciple : There was a time when barbers occupied a ...
... cherished because all flow from a convergent relationship to the Divine, but they will prove deceptive and destructive when they are centred in the ego. Trust the true warmth of the pure flame of psychic love but beware of the flawed fuel of ego-desire! The coming of the children was a development during the early years of the second world war. For personal and security reasons, some sadhaks ...
... barred the way to progress in the sadhana will now undergo an alchemic change and transformation and merge in the psychic flame. It may be added that love for the Divine, while it starts as psychic love, can presently infuse body, vital and mind also with its fire- pure quality, and this transformation will be facilitated when all action, all Page 250 endeavour, all artistic ...
... Mother likewise tells the sadhak that "The Divine is not sad and to realise the Divine you must throw far from yourself all sadness and all sentimental weakness." He should also remember that "Psychic love is always peaceful and joyous; it is the vital which dramatises and makes itself unhappy without any reason." 29 VI It is at the vital level, alas, that jealousies and quarrels ...
... long and uphill labour of transformation undertaken by the followers of the Integral Yoga. The whole nature has first to be psychicised, that is to say, tuned to the psychic key, suffused with the psychic love and devotion for the Divine, and lit up with the psychic purity. Surrender and self-consecration in work, surrender and a passionate self-giving in feelings and emotions, surrender and a loving ...
... the vision and language sufficiently characteristic of a spiritual-mental illumination. In another passage there is this illumination but it is captured and dominated by the inner heart and by the psychic love for the Divine incarnate. If Thou desirest my weak self to outgrow Its mortal longings, lean down from above, Temper the unborn light no thought can trace, Suffuse my mood with a familiar ...
... the help of the Grace of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The covers change after being removed successively into covers of different colours in the order: yellow (activity of the mind plane), pink (psychic love), blue (higher-mind at work, spiritual consciousness of Divine Truth), white (the force of purity and the power of Divine Truth), gold (knowledge). Here, this means that as the mental consciousness ...
... mental illumination. In another passage there is this illumination but it is captured and dominated by the inner heart and by the psychic thrill, a certain utterance of the yearning and push of psychic love for the Divine incarnate. If Thou desirest my weak self to outgrow Its mortal longings, lean down from above, Temper the unborn light no thought can trace, Suffuse my mood with a familiar ...
... not rich, not truly love. Shelley says, in substance, "Human vital love is a poor inferior thing, a counterfeit of true love, which I cannot offer to you . But there is a greater thing, a true psychic love, all worship and devotion, which men do not readily value, being led away by the vital glamour, but which the heavens do not reject, though it is offered from something so far below them, so maimed ...
... work of the sadhana to get that done. The silence, the growth of the psychic and all else is meant to bring about that—but it cannot be done all at once. When the consciousness is ready, then the psychic love, the impulse for self-giving begins to open out in the heart and the change is made—more and more till there is the complete self-giving. But in what way do they [ internal and external things ...
... kindness for all, but no vital attachment. Yes, certainly, there should be no attachment [ to another person ]. The emotional feeling is safe only when it is governed by the psychic—for the psychic love is essentially a permanent soul-sympathy which is not attached but self-existent and self-content pouring itself out but asking for nothing. The safest course in sadhana is to turn all to the ...
... you will have the true vital energy. Certainly it is better if the vital is brought to the true movement—renouncing its wrong movements and asking only for growth of the self-realisation, psychic love and psychicisation of the nature. But it is possible to get rid from above of the more active Page 112 forms of obstruction even with a neutral vital. Vital Sincerity, Aspiration ...
... side of love and devotion. Page 474 Love and devotion depend on the opening of the psychic and for that the desires must go. The vital love offered by many to the Mother instead of the psychic love brings more disturbance than anything else because it is coupled with desire. 8 September 1936 If you have no abhiman against the Mother, that also is surely very desirable. Abhiman, disturbance ...
... life all is for the sake of the Divine and not for the sake of the ego. I should perhaps add one or two things to avoid misapprehensions. First, the love for the Divine of which I speak is not a psychic love only; it is the love of all the being, the vital and vital-physical included,—all are capable of the same Page 461 self-giving. It is a mistake to believe that if the vital loves, it ...
... vision and language sufficiently characteristic of a spiritual-mental illumination. In another passage there is this illumination but it is captured and dominated by the inner heart and by the psychic love for the Divine incarnate. If Thou desirest my weak self to outgrow Its mortal longings, lean down from above, Temper the unborn Light no thought can trace, Suffuse my mood ...
... dangerous forest, even in the grasp of a huge python, she thinks only of Page 18 Nala's suffering, she grieves only for Nala, she has compassion only for Nala. And again it is this psychic love that finally would indicate to Damayanti more surely than any external sign that she was going to be reunited with Nala. Back in her father's home, one day she felt a sudden and tremendous joy; ...
... but they will prove deceptive and destructive when they are centred in the ego. As Prof. Iyengar has so aptly put it in his biography of Sri Aurobindo, "Trust the true warmth of the pure flame of psychic love but beware of the flawed fuel of ego-desire." (Sri Aurobindo, p. 563) ...
... Sri Aurobindo - complete identification, and the heavenly flower as one. So here is Mrs. Gracy's case. There was no identity of consciousness through yogic effort, but there was a rare instance of psychic love, which brought about this identity. There are similar stories of love between two souls in our ancient tradition: between Savitri and Satyavan, between Ram and Sita; this was the identity-experience ...
... egoistic elements in it. Also it wanted nice, pleasing and elaborate answers. All that is the usual wrong attitude of the vital which is the stumbling-block for so many sadhaks and prevents true psychic love from developing, replacing it by the vital kind full of demand, ego, jealousy, revolt etc. and it has been the ruin of some. All that you had thrown out of the higher parts and quieted it elsewhere ...
... Certainly it is better if the vital is brought to the true movement — renouncing its wrong movements and asking Page 73 only for growth of the self-realisation, psychic love and psy-chicisation of the nature. But it is possible to get rid from above of the more active forms of obstruction even with a neutral vital. How do the small forces and beings ...
... That is the true faith and its natural attitude. It is said that, if one loves the Divine, faith ceases to be important. It is not true except that when the psychic love for the Divine is there, the faith is there also. But so long as knowledge and realisation are not complete, faith is indispensable. Page 247 KNOWLEDGE AND THE RISING OF ...
... it Divine Consciousness. The sacred tulasi, which is indispensable for worship in India, was named Devotion; pārijāta, the night jasmine became Aspiration; jasmine, Purity; the rose, Love [psychic love] for the Divine; pink rose, Surrender; white rose, Integral Surrender; the yellow champak, Supramentalised Psychological Perfection. Likewise other flowers acquired names such as Sincerity ...
... concentration can lead only to the silence of the Immutable, but not to the integral being of the Divine. A concentration of the mind, heart, will and the physical being of the sâdhaka, fired by the psychic love¹ for the Divine and maintained unflagging even in the midst of the full flood of life's activities, is the indispensable pre-requisite in the initial stages of the Integral Yoga. It is, in fact ...
... feel the Love, the only Love, the Divine's Love which permeates all existence. 5 March 1970 When the psychic loves it loves with the Divine Love. When you love, you love with the Divine's love diminished and distorted by your ego, but in its essence still the Divine's love. It is for the facility of the language that you say the love of this one or that one, but it is all the same one... receives but the love one gives. And the supreme Love is a love without any definite object―the love which loves because it cannot do other than to love. 15 May 1968 Page 123 There is only one love―the Divine's Love; and without that Love there would be no creation. All exists because of that Love and it is when we try to find our own love which does not exist that we do not feel... long as the ego is there, one cannot love. Love alone can love, Love alone can conquer the ego. Self-love is the great obstacle. Divine love is the great remedy. One is outwardly alone only if one is closed to the divine love. 8 December 1960 You feel lonely because you feel the need to be loved. Learn to love without demand, to love just for the joy of loving (the most wonderful ...
... must ask for time. Why do you always insist on cherishing the idea that I refuse all human love? I have surely written to you to the contrary. I don’t reject it, neither human nor vital love. But I want that behind the vital there shall be the constant support of the psychic human love if (not all at once the divine), because that alone can prevent the movements which make you restless... not be depressed or sad. You know that Sri Aurobindo has not left us and that he will be here to-morrow as usual. With my love and blessings * March 6, 1951 Let the Divine Grace do the work through you and the work will be thoroughly done. My love * April 28, 1951 Sri Aurobindo has made our realisation independent from all world circumstances,... and He always considered you as part of the realisation; so there is no true ground for depression. I expect you to shake it off with the help of my love and blessings. * June 27, 1951 Mon cher enfant, Voila ce que je viens d’entendre de notre Seigneur pour toi: «Pas de craintes, pas d’anxiété, pas de doutes, je suis la». Avec mes bénédictions [My ...
... physical longings or outward-going impulses of the psychic prana. Love is an emotion of the heart and may be a pure feeling,—all mentality, since we are embodied minds, must produce, even thought produces, some kind of life effect and some response in the stuff of body, but they need not for that reason be of a physical nature,—but the heart's love allies itself readily with a vital desire in the body... a desire-soul, but a soul of pure love and delight; but that, like the rest of our true being, can only emerge when the deformation created by the life of desire is removed from the surface and is no longer the characteristic action of our being. To get that done is a necessary part of our purification, liberation, perfection. The nervous action of the psychic prana is most obvious in our purely... to make certain farther distinctions. This mentality is pervaded by the life-force, which becomes here an instrument for psychic consciousness of life and psychic action on life. Every fibre of the sense mind and basic consciousness is shot through with the action of this psychic prana, it is a nervous or vital and physical mentality. Even the buddhi and ego are overpowered by it, although they have ...
... must ask for time. Why do you always insist on cherishing the idea that I refuse all human love? I have surely written to you to the contrary. I don't reject it, neither human nor vital love. But I want that Page 441 behind the vital there shall be the constant support of the psychic human love (not all at once the divine), because that alone can prevent the movements which make you restless... back to the Mother. 16 May 1937 (2) I want to love and love completely and lose myself in love. If one can think of losing oneself for mortal love, why not for the love of the Divine? Well, why not? But it must be done in the divine way, not in the mortal. Otherwise— Let me then say definitely that I love you and you love me a little and let us meet somewhere in this matter. You... pits of dullness and disappears. Also tries in spite of my objections a wrestling tapasya which puts his vital into revolt. Then by a stroke of good luck I succeed unexpectedly in making a sort of psychic opening. Decides to try surrender, purification of the heart, rejection of ego, true humility etc.—tries a little of it and is really progressing. After two months finds that Krishna is not appearing—gets ...
... Jesus. Chaitanya and, most recently, Ramakrishna — three examples par excellence of the psychic being's love-light within the context of the old-world spirituality which put its goal in the Beyond — had taken Pavitra as its channel for the new Yoga. There can be no question that the presence of the psychic being could be perceived in him by all who enjoyed even a little association with him. At... spiritual discipline, because what Sri Aurobindo says apropos of the photograph implies a very unusual "psychic" development. "Psychic" refers not to a sort of mediumistic opening to occult planes as understood in so-called "psychic phenomena" but to the inmost soul which Sri Aurobindo terms "the psychic being", indicating the true spiritual individual behind the apparent mental-vital-physical personality... personality ruled grossly or subtly by what he dubs "the ego". The emergence and activity of the psychic being are the key to the special process that constitutes Sri Aurobindo's "Yoga of Supramental Descent and Transformation". The psychic being is the only directly divine element in the evolving human composite. All the others, even at their highest, function as part of the cosmic formula ...
... she can manifest in human form. 7 It is one of the greatest weapons of the Asura at work when you are taught to shun beauty. It has been the ruin of India. The Divine manifests in the psychic as love, in the mind as Page 372 knowledge, in the vital as power and in the physical as beauty. If you discard beauty it means that you are depriving the Divine of this manifestation in the... manifest her soul." How to find back India's soul? Become conscious of your psychic being. Let your psychic being become intensely interested in India's Soul and aspire towards it, with an attitude of service; and if you are sincere you will succeed. 15 June 1970 India is the country where the psychic law can and must rule and the time has come for that here . Besides, it is the... the land of its resurrection―the resurrection to a higher and truer life. In the whole creation the earth has a place of distinction, because unlike any other planet it is evolutionary with a psychic entity at its centre. In it, India, in particular, is a divinely chosen country. It is only India's soul who can unify the country. Externally the provinces of India are very different in character ...
... sublimate the vital impulses through love by turning human love towards the Divine. It made a strong and intense effort and had many rich and beautiful experiences; but its weakness was just there, that it remained valid only as an inner experience turned towards the inner Divine, but it stopped at that point. Chaitanya's prema was nothing but a psychic divine love with a strong sublimated vital ma... deterioration, much corruption and decline. You cannot appeal to Chaitanya's example as against psychic or divine love; it was not something merely vital-human; in its essence, though not in its form, it was very much the first step in the transformation, which we ask of the sadhaks, to make their love psychic and use the vital not for its own sake, but as an expression of the soul's realisation. It is... soul, the psychic, hearing the call of the Divine and flowering into the complete love and surrender that brings the supreme Ananda. That is what Radha and Krishna by their divine union bring about in the human consciousness and it is so that you must regard it, throwing aside the old sex-associations. Love of Krishna and This Yoga What you were told of the incompatibility of love and adoration ...
... lose patience or give you up—that will never happen. Our patience, you will find, is tireless because it is based on an unbounded sympathy and love. Human love may give up, but divine love is stable and does not falter. We know that the aspiration of your psychic being is sincere and the falterings of the vital cannot affect the support that we shall always give to it. It is because the sincere aspiration... that. I must ask for time. Why do you always insist on cherishing the idea that I refuse all human love? I have surely written to you to the contrary. I don't reject it, neither human nor vital love. But I want that behind the vital there shall be the constant support of the psychic human love (not all at once the divine), because that alone can prevent the movements which make you rest- less, obscured... intensity of psychic and pure spiritual experience-- psychic devotion and love, peace, Ananda. You Page 85 cannot base a general denial on your own particular experience; because you have only the initial experiences of cairn etc. and have not got to the intensities as I have done and others before me have done. It is only when one lives centrally in the psychic with the mental ...
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