... The Psychic Opening, Emergence and Transformation Letters on Yoga - III Chapter II The Psychic Opening The Meaning of Psychic Opening The psychic in the ignorant human being is always behind a veil and can act on the mind or vital but not in its own power, for that is limited and obscured by the instruments. A psychic opening means the removal of... feel is the true psychic opening and it is that for which you should always aspire and reject other things until it becomes your normal base of consciousness. Once that is there, it is possible to call down through it a strength from above which will make the vital strong and remove the weakness. Your sadhana is still too mental and therefore difficult and slow; it is the psychic opening that makes a more... should necessarily follow. The psychic opening first, the higher consciousness and its experiences afterwards. What you desire about the self-giving free from demand is sure to fulfil itself when there is the full opening of the psychic. X has been always like that. It is the activity of his mind which is very restless; sometimes he gets a psychic opening and is all right, then the mind ...
... without any unquiet interference. And she asked you if you had not experienced that condition and you said you had and you knew it very well. Now that condition is the psychic opening and, if you have had it, you know what the psychic opening is—of course there is much more that afterwards comes but this is the fundamental condition in which it can most easily come. What you should have done was to keep... something comparatively mean, crude and imperfect (like the lower forms of art, music and literature which are yet more attractive to the ordinary human mind and vital), and it is by a spiritual and psychic opening and refinement that it has to reach its true perfection. This can only be done by its being steeped in the divine Light and Flame in which its material will be stripped of all heavy dross and turned ...
... one than the vital. It is nearer the Truth — there are less delusions and falsities in it than in the vital. And when one has this opening there is a chance of his opening to the higher Truth. Psychic opening beyond and above the mental openings is the real opening — here there is no danger, one gets the proper knowledge and can go on with more spontaneity. People who are not called to this Yoga... delusions and falsities in it. When one gets the real thing always he feels it, knows it and becomes conscious of it, and where he puts it or applies it, is always successful. This natural psychic opening of the soul establishes something increasingly which always stands and is not broken by obstacles, confusions or covering. 11 September 1925 A quietude of the mind is necessary. This does ...
... be difficult for the external nature to contain or bear so much force Light Knowledge or Ananda. All these things together make what we call the higher spiritual or Divine Consciousness. The psychic opening through the heart puts us primarily into connection with the individual Divine, the Divine in his inner relation with us; it is especially the source of love and bhakti. . This upward opening... it is no longer the yogic spirit. That is why I have sometimes to say that our business is to be yogis, not merely poets, painters, etc. Page 180 Love, bhakti, surrender, the psychic opening are the only short-cut to the Divine—or can be; for if the love and bhakti are too vital, then there is likely to be a seesaw between ecstatic expectation and viraha, abhiman [hurt love], despair ...
... this the psychic opening will surely bring. It [ concentration in the heart ] is the best to "start with"—but as you have already started with success on the two higher centres, there is no reason why you should discontinue that. The Page 310 other you may try from time to time when you find a sufficient quietude. Concentration there leads—or should lead—to the psychic opening. ...
... of Realisation You know the four things on which the realisation has to be based—(1) on a rising to a station above the mind, (2) on the opening out of the cosmic consciousness, (3) on the psychic opening, (4) on the descent of the higher consciousness with its peace, light, force, knowledge, Ananda etc. into all the planes of the being down to the most physical. All this has to be done by the working... be difficult for the external nature to contain or bear so much Force, Light, Knowledge or Ananda. All these things together make what we call the higher, spiritual or divine consciousness. The psychic opening through the heart puts us primarily into connection with the individual Divine, the Divine in his inner relations with us; it is especially the source of love and bhakti. This upward opening puts ...
... presence. In the state of the consciousness it is the Force working on the system which brings what is needed or aspired to, peace or light or happiness and the psychic opening. Peace, quiet, followed by a happy state and a psychic opening is what you need—let that grow always. × See letter of 8 July 1935 above.—Ed ...
... selfishness and demand (which is the base of the vital feelings) must be got rid of — or at least never accepted. Get rid of the dissatisfactions, they prevent the permanent psychic opening. When the psychic being is coming out can it not brush aside vital non-cooperation, depression etc.? If it has come out entirely, it can. When the psychic... whatever they want? I promise you that henceforth no part of my nature will be allowed to respond to any desire, demand, right etc. I hope this fulfils your condition for the psychic opening. The thing has to be done. not merely promised. If you do it, the psychic is bound to come out of itself. Page 191 This is my appeal to the Mother: Either ...
... through the protected freedom (freedom+ security) which is the gist of the new system. For the teacher who has been a witness to the beautiful change which marks the beginning of the stage of psychic opening, not only anger but scolding his pupils becomes impossible. Indeed for a child who has reached this stage scolding becomes injurious, especially if it is done by the person who has been instrumental... will largely depend on the experience of the teachers taken individually and on their unity of purpose and attitude. 2. One can easily imagine that the progress towards responsibility and psychic opening will become easier and quicker if the child finds, outside the class-room, similarly favourable conditions. The understanding and collaboration of the family would be a great asset. Parents or ...
... on straight and firm, conscious of your destiny, master of your life." 11 V And yet the psychic opening or the seeking and the finding of the soul is but a stage in integral education. The Mother calls these further stages steps in "spiritual education". If the psychic opening makes possible a purified and puissant life here and now "in the universe of forms", a Page 515 ...
... 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 and bhakti, but of what is called the coming in front of the psychic. When that... the discernment is mental and it is the mind that tries to put all in order. In that case it is the descent of the higher consciousness through the mind that opens the psychic, instead of the psychic opening directly. Cannot "the coming in front of the psychic" be brought about by a direct concentration on the heart? Why should it be done necessarily by the higher consciousness? ... 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 and the action of the psychic on the mind, vital and physical that is important. You wrote to me, "Naturally, it is the psychic being of which that can be said." But I wanted to know ...
... the base, which even if partially covered cannot disappear altogether. 92 Sri Aurobindo * 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 and bhakti, but of what is called the coming in front of the psychic. When that happens one is aware of the psychic being with its simple... the discernment is mental and it is the mind that tries to put all in order. In that case, it is the descent of the higher consciousness through the mind that opens the psychic, instead of the psychic opening directly. 93 — Sri Aurobindo * What is meant by [the psychic's] coming to the front is simply this. The psychic ordinarily is deep within. Very few people are aware of their... and a more and more complete inner consecration are the best way to open the psychic. 111 — Sri Aurobindo * That [purity] is one of the most important things for the psychic opening... 112 — Sri Aurobindo * Then only can the psychic being fully open when the sadhak has got rid of the mixture of vital motives with his sadhana and is capable of a simple and ...
... The Psychic Opening, Emergence and Transformation Letters on Yoga - III Chapter V The Psychic and Spiritual Transformations Psychisation and Spiritualisation Psychisation means the change of the lower nature, bringing right vision into the mind, right impulse and feeling into the vital, right movement and habit into the physical—all turned towards... movements, the psychic and the spiritual, is complete without the other. If the spiritual ascent and descent are not made, the spiritual transformation of the nature cannot happen; if the full psychic opening and connection is not made, the transformation cannot be complete. There is no incompatibility between the two movements; some begin the psychic first, others the spiritual first, some carry... ready. The straining to recover the experience was not the right thing to do then; what should have been done was the aspiration for the purification and preparation of the nature, the permanent psychic opening and the increase of the higher spiritual opening above till there could be a total release of the being. The vehemence of the action of the forces was due to the resistance and the breaking of ...
... Mind of Light. These are extremely high matters and guesses are risky. Nearer home for us is the experience I prayed for at the close of my interview: not the come-and-go of the psychic opening but the permanent establishment of it. Even its glorious occurrence unbroken for days or weeks or months is not sufficient: it must be there at all times. Here I may recall a friend... difficulty was to pronounce a word like "above". He could never combine the b and v. He would say either "avove" or "abobe". Anyway, he had some aspiration to what was above, but not much of a psychic opening. I watched him every day at Pranam and he was quite stiff face to face with the Mother. Once, however, I saw a sort of unstiffening and softening. So I caught him afterwards and said: "Sarat, what... have made my Page 85 surrender. Now it's for the Mother to act — her job remains — I have nothing more to do." (laughter) I remonstrated: "Look here, I know there was a psychic opening in you. I could see it and that's why I am asking you what happened. But don't imagine the opening is permanent just because you had such a glow of it once. You have to go on keeping it, concentrate ...
... is it at present? What did it do? There is no mention in her "Notes on the Way" of her getting any help or otherwise from that being or consciousness. 12) The Mother's stress on the psychic opening and, later, on the transformation of "cells". Was this a correct line? She would have later to go on to transform chromosomes, RNA-DNA, atoms, protons, electrons and almost 300 subatomic... subatomic particles! She admitted that Sri Aurobindo had not disclosed to her his "mathematical formula" till the last. So was this her own experimentation? The same would apply to the psychic-opening approach because he had reverted to Chakras in his last articles. In any case, the psychic-approach stress or priority has no precedent in the old Yogas, while Sri Aurobindo's approach has the full Force... Intermediate Race which is the Superman's precursor or preparer of the advent of supramental beings or the Supramental Race by a straight materialisation. 12) The Mother's stress on the psychic opening and afterwards on the transformation of the "cells" has nothing to puzzle one. In an Integral Yoga, which is an adventure into the unknown, all sorts of different stresses are put at different ...
... control and use them. Thirdly, in my Yoga, the Yoga of the supramental, the opening of the psychic consciousness to which these experiences belong is quite indispensable. For it is only through the psychic opening that the supramental can fully descend with a strong and concrete grasp and transform the mental, vital and physical being. This is the present condition and its value. For the future if he... record of Jyotish Mukherjee's experiences. 8 It appears from it that he has made the right start to a certain extent and has been able to establish the beginning of mental calm and some kind of psychic opening but neither of these has yet been able to go very far. The reason probably is that he has done everything by a strong mental control and forcible stilling of the mind and emotional and vital movements ...
... unquiet interference. And she asked you if you had not experienced that condition and you said that you had and knew it very well. Now that condition is the beginning of psychic opening and, if you have had it, you know what the psychic opening is; there is of course much more that afterwards comes to complete it but this is the fundamental condition into which all the rest can most easily come. What you ...
... That is one of the most important things for the psychic opening and the inner relation to the Mother. I pray for Purity and Peace above all. With these I am sure of union with the Mother. Am I not correct? Yes. I pray for your observations regarding this psychic experience. Was it not psychic? Yes, certainly, it was a psychic opening and at the point emphasised, which is very important—the ...
... stuff of the consciousness. As for sadhana what is necessary is to arrive at a certain quiet of the inner mind which makes meditation fruitful or a quietude of the heart which creates the psychic opening. It is only by regular concentration, constant aspiration and a will to purify the mind and heart of the things that disquiet and agitate them that this can be done. When a certain basis has been... basis is well laid by a sort of mental or vital aptitude for these things, but such experiences do not of themselves lead to transformation or realisation—it is by the quietude of the mind and the psychic opening that these greater things can come. Experience in the sadhana is bound to begin with the mental plane,—all that is necessary is that the experience should be sound and genuine. The pressure ...
... pranam there were some vital dissatisfactions. But they have a great effect on the heart which has now begun to open to the Mother. Get rid of these dissatisfactions, they prevent the permanent psychic opening. 29 September 1934 The heart is beginning to open to the Mother, but it is still easily touched by lower vital suggestions. That is probably why the vital is not always happy with the way... Mother does is for the best", and it accepts all with gladness. It is the vital part of the heart that is easily touched by the suggestions. 29 September 1934 I am not sure whether a direct psychic opening could have been done in my case without any difficulty. The direct opening of the psychic centre is easy only when the ego-centricity is greatly diminished and also if there is a strong bhakti ...
... control and use them. Thirdly, in my Yoga, the Yoga of the Supramental, the opening of the psychic consciousness to which these experiences belong to are quite indispensible. For it is only through psychic opening that the supramental can fully descend and with a strong and concrete grasp transform the mental, vital and physical being. This is the present condition and its value. For the future if he... record of Jyotish Mukherjee's experiences. It appears from it that he has made the right start to a certain extent and has been able to establish the beginning of mental calm and some kind of psychic opening but neither of these has as yet been able to go very far. The reason probably is that he has done everything by a strong mental control and forcible stilling of the mind and emotional and vital ...
... knowledge, the Yoga of Aspiration, the Yoga of the Forerunner who makes Savitri's advent possible. Starting with unease and uncertainty, Aswapati achieves his soul's release through a psychic opening and spiritual change. He is able to break through the shell of egoistic separativity: He felt the beating life in other men Invade him with their happiness and their grief; Their... power of observation, some word-embroidery, some colouring of the imagination, but no more. But unless the reader at least concedes the reality of spiritual values unless the reader has felt a psychic opening to the intuitions of the spirit — large areas of Savitri must remain opaque or without positive relevance to him; and the poem as a whole, too, will fail to make the intended total effect ...
... better one than the vital. It is nearer the Truth—there are less delusions and falsities in it than in the vital. And when one has this opening there is a chance of his opening to the higher Truth. Psychic opening beyond and above the mental opening is the real opening—here there is no danger, one gets the proper knowledge and can go on with more spontaneity. People who are not called to this Yoga, who... delusions and falsities in it. When one gets the real thing always he feels it, knows it and becomes conscious of it, and where he puts it or applies it, is always successful. This natural psychic opening of the soul establishes something increasingly which always stands and is not broken by obstacles, confusions or covering. 12 September 1925 1925-09-12 A quietude of the mind is ...
... and vital in the surface mental ideas and their insistence on them must go. One must know that one is ignorant before one can begin to know. This shows that I was not wrong in pressing for the psychic opening as the only way out. For as the psychic opens, such responses and much more also become common and the inner change also proceeds by which they are made possible. Page 98 The poems... beautiful. Will you tell me your opinion of Amiel—as I am reading him daily with profit and am much struck by the wisdom of his charity and depth- Am I right in thinking that he had some real psychic opening and spiritual insight into things ? Also tell me if my impression as to Saurin is correct that he is about to repent if not already repenting. He has suffered anyhow. I have not myself ...
... than buoy up his own opinion of himself. On the one hand, the "work" is necessary for the complex and efficient functioning of the Ashram; on the other hand, the work will be the means for the psychic opening of the sadhak and his attunement to the divine purpose. Two attitudes of dissent are possible: the sadhak may feel that a low or inferior kind of work has been assigned to him, or he may grouse... link between the sadhak and the powers that represented the Divine to him. Sri Aurobindo has explained that the purpose of the momentary physical contact was only to facilitate the more important psychic opening or communion. Darśan at the time of collective meditation, whether with Sri Aurobindo or the Mother or both present, was an attempt "to bring down the right consciousness in the atmosphere of ...
... world-knowledge, the Yoga of Aspiration, the Yoga of the Forerunner who makes Savitri's advent possible. Starting with unease and uncertainty, Aswapathy achieves his soul's release through a psychic opening and spiritual change. He is able to break through the shell of egoistic separativity: He felt the beating life in other men Invade him with their happiness and their grief; ... power of observation, some word-embroidery, some colouring of the imagination, but no more. But unless the reader at least concedes the reality of spiritual values - unless the reader has felt a psychic opening to the intuitions of the spirit - large areas of Savitri must remain opaque, or without positive relevance, to him; and the poem as a whole, too, will fail to make the intended total effect. ...
... the record of Jyotish Mukherjee's experiences. It appears from it that he has made the right start to certain extent and has been able to establish the beginning of mental calm and some kind of psychic opening but neither of these has as yet been able to go very far. The reason probably is that he has done everything by a strong mental control and forcible stilling of the mind and emotional and vital ...
... control and use them. Thirdly, in my Yoga, the Yoga of the Supramental, the opening of the psychic consciousness to which these experiences belong are quite indispensable. For it is only through psychic opening that the supramental can fully descend and with a strong and concrete grasp transform the mental, vital and physical being. This is the present condition and its value. For the future if he ...
... audience during her evening talks about the occult levels or worlds where sound and music originate, and about the composers whose music she had loved so much. César Franck, she would say, had a psychic opening and created his music under the direct influence of his soul – something most music lovers who know his (only) symphony, or his Trois Chorals for organ, will have difficulty disagreeing with ...
... one observes that the upper part of the physiognomy is good, especially the eyes, the lower from the Yogic point of view is faulty. That would indicate a possibility of spiritual aspiration and psychic opening, but also great vital obstacles and difficulties. But it is not safe to generalise from a photograph for even if externally accurate, it may express only one part of the nature,—and this one, you ...
... broke down and a clear space was experienced, within which there was an outburst of what I can only call a flaming and flowering ecstasy - an almost unbearable self-existent bliss. Such a psychic opening in full force is not my constant experience, yet an access to the source of the nectar in some form or other has become possible again and again. Here too there is no specific dwelling on any centre: ...
... such insistence is contrary to surrender. All egoism and self-will has to be abandoned and one must seek to be governed only by the Divine Shakti. No complete surrender is possible without the psychic opening. It is impossible to become like a child giving oneself entirely until the psychic is in control and stronger than the vital. Page 76 It is the psychic coming forward that ...
... rely on that Force more, to open to it more completely and to seek spiritual progress even not for your own sake but for the sake of the Divine—then you will go on more smoothly. Get the full psychic opening in the most external physical consciousness. That and not despondency is the lesson you ought to draw from your present adverse experience. They [ patience and peace ] go together. By having ...
... attainment of the inner Self or the Divine, though that Page 367 attainment is its basis without which no transformation is possible. In this transformation there are four elements, the psychic opening, the transit through [the] occult, the spiritual release, the supramental perfection. If any of the four is unachieved, the Yoga remains incomplete. I mean by the psychic the inmost soul-being ...
... revolt of your vital mind and vital ego and I have pointed out to you the only way in which it can be overcome. You had by an effort supported by a special concentration from us arrived at a first psychic opening in your mind and heart which enabled you even to throw out for a time the sexual obsession from your vital consciousness. But, as often happens, soon after all that is obscure, egoistic, self-centred ...
... learn to watch yourself and know what is the true nature and source of the movements in you and report them Page 423 carefully—as in fact you had begun to do when you first had the psychic opening and could see the movements in you or many of them at least very clearly. Of course—the vital is insatiable. 1 There are only two things that interfere with it [ greed for food ]—the ...
... The Psychic Opening, Emergence and Transformation Letters on Yoga - III Chapter IV Experiences Associated with the Psychic The Psychic Touch or Influence The psychic influence in the ordinary life of man tries to bring the truth of the soul into human action, human thought and feelings. When it is spiritualised, it tries to turn the human towards ...
... The Psychic Opening, Emergence and Transformation Letters on Yoga - III Chapter I The Psychic Being and Its Role in Sadhana The Importance of the Psychic Change What is meant in th terminology of the Yoga by the psychic is the soul element in the nature, the pure psyche or divine nucleus which stands behind mind, life and body (it is not the ego) ...
... it can be overcome. Rejecting Wrong Movements of the Lower Vital The lower vital in most human beings is full of grave defects and of movements that respond to hostile forces. A constant psychic opening, a persistent rejection of these influences, a separation of oneself from all hostile suggestions and the inflow of the calm, light, peace, purity of the Mother's power would eventually free the ...
... it. The Mother had told you to work freely with X ; she told you that his influence was good for you, and for many days you had peace and joy and freedom from the restless mind and you had the psychic opening. Now you must go back to that and do as you were doing before. Turn to the Mother only and let her consciousness and her will work in you. Then you will recover what you had got, silence the mind ...
... 306 do nothing to you, only you must reject all fear. Keep always this thought when these things come: "The Mother's protection is with me, nothing bad can happen"; for when there is the psychic opening and one puts one's faith in the Mother, that is sufficient to ward these things off. Many sadhaks learn, when they have alarming dreams, to call the Mother's name in the dream itself and then the ...
... falls far short in any respect, but with the attitude he has taken, her deficiencies, if any, do not matter. It is not the human defects of the Guru that can stand in the way when there is the psychic opening, confidence and surrender. The Guru is the channel or the representative or the manifestation of the Divine, according to the measure of his personality or his attainment; but whatever he is, it ...
... there and that means a coming of the influence of the psychic being to the front. But why did I feel the Mother's presence in front of me and not within me? It is when there is a complete psychic opening within that there is the presence within. The Presence in front means that it was with you, but had still to enter within. 13 July 1937 ...
... 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 ...
... at that moment one sees that and has an altogether sure guide for everything that one may do. But this, perforce, takes a very long time to come. 48 * What is the meaning of "the psychic opening in the physical consciousness " ? ... One can find the psychic through each part of the consciousness: you can find a psychic behind the physical... you Page 44 ...
... be difficult for the external nature to contain or bear so much Force, Light, Knowledge or Ananda. All these things together make what we call the higher spiritual or Divine Consciousness. The psychic opening through the heart puts us primarily into connection with the individual Divine, the Divine in his inner relation with us; it is especially the source of love and Bhakti. This upward opening puts ...
... the psychic being; but to the extent that it 4s conscious it reflects the perfection of this psychic. 17 — The Mother There is the true psychic which is always good and there is the psychic opening to mental, vital and other worlds which contain all kinds of things good, bad and indifferent, true, false and half true, thought-suggestions which are of all kinds, and messages also which are ...
... thought, feeling or action and there is a steady aspiration of an entirely sincere self-giving, the psychic usually after a time opens of itself. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - III: The Psychic Opening These things, anger, jealousy, desire are the very stuff of the ordinary human vital consciousness. They could not be changed if there were not a deeper consciousness within which is of quite ...
... or psychic consciousness is the medium through which the inspiration is perceived. Generally, yes. The first contact you have with higher regions is a psychic one. Certainly, before an inner psychic opening is achieved, it is difficult to have these inspirations. It can happen as an exception and under exceptional conditions as a grace, but the true contact comes through the psychic; because the psychic ...
... Norway was preparing for war. PURANI: Then it can't be sleep. Nirodbaran must be having an inner opening. NIRODBARAN: What sort of opening is this? What have I to do with Norway? I want the psychic opening. SRI AUROBINDO: Why? Yoga is universal. So Norway is part of you. (Laughter) But was it really Norway and not Sweden? NIRODBARAN: I think it was Norway. Was my sleep a tamasic (inert) condition ...
... psychic way of emotion. Some dissatisfactions come and affect the heart which is opening to the Mother. Get rid of these dissatisfactions, they prevent the permanent psychic opening. Perhaps it is because the psychic is just opening that it comes under the influence of these dissatisfactions? What the psychic always feels is "What the Mother does ...
... 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. It ...
... Dilip should wait a little longer. Four years later the call was more insistent, and in November 1928 Dilip rushed to Pondicherry again; this time, as the Mother said, there had been "a sudden psychic opening". His interview with the Mother was most rewarding, and he recorded: She was exceedingly kind to me and listened to me with great sympathy. I. was charmed by her personality at once effulgent ...
... children may have gone astray, all the more so because of the large freedom they enjoyed in their Ashram life. Studies, group life, physical culture, the ambience of the elected Presence, the psychic opening stimulated by the Ashram environment, all helped the promotion of a gymnastic fused in the harmony of the Spirit, the flowering of a bright young race with the flame of freedom in their souls and ...
... spent ten to fifteen years continuously at the Centre of Education, a period long enough, one could say, for the accomplishment of the best results in physical culture, academic excellence, and psychic opening. The third feature was that the Centre of Education was both in the Ashram in a physical sense and it was of the Ashram too: The life of the children is intimately interwoven with the Ashram ...
... 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 is a sine qua non of the liberation and supramental perfection of our integral being. PART II THE REALISATION OF THE PSYCHIC "CONCENTRATE in the heart. Enter into it; ...
... connected with my reading your answers? The psychic can be connected with anything that gives room for love or bhakti. When I was reading these answers with love and joy, I felt some sort of psychic opening which was the most important part of my reaction. Could you explain this? You have explained it yourself—it is the psychic contact with what is in or behind the answers—what comes out into ...
... for their own sake, then it is no longer the Yogic spirit. That is why I have sometimes to say that our business is to be Yogis, not merely poets, painters etc. Love, bhakti, surrender, the psychic opening are the only short cut to the Divine—or can be; for if the love and bhakti are too vital, then there is likely to be a seesaw between ecstatic expectation and viraha, abhimāna, despair, which ...
... 9 March 1955 This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 5, "Physical Consciousness, etc.". Sweet Mother, what is the meaning of "the psychic opening in the physical consciousness"? I think I have already told you this once. One can find the psychic through each part of the consciousness: you can find a psychic behind the physical... you ...
... Questions and Answers (1954) 26 May 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Elements of Yoga , Chapter 8, "The Psychic Opening". Sweet Mother, when we see you in a dream, is it always a symbolic dream? No, not necessarily. It can be a fact. This means that instead of seeing physically, one sees in the subtle physical or the vital or ...
... parts is the thing to be established. Other things can come in their proper time. What is the real need now is not insistence on physical nearness, which is one of those other things, but the psychic opening in the physical consciousness and the constant presence and guidance there. 16 February 1932 If the attainment of supermind does not take us to the last stage of perfection in the objective ...
... case, it opens to all kinds of things and to suggestions, and messages from all sorts of planes and worlds and forces and beings. There is the true psychic which is always good and there is the psychic opening to mental, vital and other worlds which contain all kinds of things good, bad and indifferent, true, false and half truths, thought-suggestions which are of all kinds, and messages [which] are ...
... parts is the thing to be established. Other things can come in their proper time. What is the real need now is not insistence on physical nearness, which is one of those other things, but the psychic opening in the physical consciousness and the constant presence and guidance there. I do not know what you mean by our wanting to use you for all practical purposes. We did not insist on your doing ...
... Learn to rely on that Force more, to open to it more completely and to seek spiritual progress even not for your own sake but for the sake of the Divine—then you will go on more smoothly. Get the psychic opening in the most external physical consciousness. That and not despondency is the lesson you ought to draw from your present adverse experience. ...
... merely come because they want or need or think that I ought to receive and maintain them or on the mere ground that they are sadhaks. As for himself, he has not as yet even the first conditions, a psychic opening or an attitude of self-surrender. He is only in the first mental stage of initial realisations. In any case no claim is allowed in these matters. 13 April 1928 This path of Yoga is very special ...
... that you should push through and arrive. June 1934 Page 241 Meeting with Vishnu Bhaskar Lele It is not the human defects of the Guru that can stand in the way when there is the psychic opening, confidence and surrender. The Guru is the channel or the representative or the manifestation of the Divine, according to the measure of his personality or his attainment; but whatever he is, it ...
... movements, the psychic and the spiritual, is complete without the other. If the spiritual ascent and descent are not made, the spiritual transformation of the nature cannot happen; if the full psychic opening and connection is not made, the transformation cannot be complete There is no incompatibility between the two movements; some begin the psychic first, others the spiritual first, some carry ...
... mistaken to be the psychic being itself (pp. 91-93). Regarding the importance of such a discrimination, Sri Aurobindo writes: "There is the true psychic which is always good and there is the psychic opening to mental, vital and other worlds which contain all kinds of things good, bad and indifferent, true, false and half true, thought-suggestions which are of all kinds, and messages also which are ...
... a Yoga of the attainment of the inner Self or the Divine, though that attainment is its basis without which no transformation is possible. In this transformation there are four elements, the psychic opening, the transit through [the] occult the spiritual release, the supramental perfection. If any of the four is unachieved, the Yoga remains incomplete. Sri Aurobindo Page 15 ...
... Mother only, not with impatience for the result and desire, but with trust and confidence and let her workings bring you quietude Page 34 and the renewal of the progress towards the psychic opening and realisation. That will bring surely and without doubt the fuller faith and the love which you seek. I repeat what I said before (though your physical mind does not yet believe) that ...
... something comparatively mean, crude and imperfect (like the lower forms of art, music and literature which are yet more attractive to the ordinary human mind and vital), and it is by a spiritual and psychic opening and refinement that it has to reach its true perfection. This can only be done by its being steeped in the divine Light and Flame in which its material will be stripped of all heavy dross and turned ...
... for their own sake, then it is no longer the Yogic spirit. That is why I have sometimes to say that our business is to be Yogis, not merely poets, painters etc. Love, bhakti, surrender, the psychic opening are the only short cut to the Divine—or can be; for if the love and bhakti are too vital, then there is likely to be a seesaw between ecstatic expectation and viraha, abhimāna , despair, which ...
... the base of the sadhana. If it is only for a brief time that it comes, it is always so at the beginning of its coming, but afterwards it fixes and becomes a pervading basis. It is a sign of the psychic opening and when the psychic fully opens and inspires the mind and heart, the love you wish to have will undoubtedly be there. Aspire and persevere and all will come with the growing consciousness. ...
... been simple; refusal to look would be enough and even the faculty might disappear by atrophy through long discontinuance. But if the thoughts of others come to her of themselves, it may be the psychic opening in her inner mind which it would be difficult to get rid of. If she could remain indifferent or push away these unwelcome visitors behind her and not think of them again, that would be one remedy; ...
... and the necessity of a transformation, that itself is a sign of psychic growth. They should not be a cause of discouragement; for these are common defects of the human vital and by an increased psychic opening they will lose their hold and finally disappear. As for the diminution of mental control over the vital movements, that often happens temporarily in the course of the Yoga. Mental control has ...
... The Psychic Opening, Emergence and Transformation Letters on Yoga - III Chapter III The Emergence or Coming Forward of the Psychic The Meaning of "Coming to the Front" What is meant by [ the psychic's ] coming to the front is simply this. The psychic ordinarily is deep within. Very few people are aware of their souls—when they speak of their soul ...
... can really do nothing to you, only you must reject all fear. Keep always this thought when these things come, "The Mother's protection is with me, nothing bad can happen"; for when there is the psychic opening and one puts one's faith in the Mother, that is sufficient to ward these things off. Many sadhaks learn, when they have alarming dreams, to call the Mother's name in the dream itself and then the ...
... overcome. There must first be the will to change firmly conceived and held—then to open the consciousness to the Force and let it work with the inner assent to its working. When there is the psychic opening, then even the things most obstinate in the nature can change. Obviously what the Mother told you was the fact—but such missing of opportunities should not discourage, the recognition of ...
... Force for its working, and in that quietude a sense of the Force working and a restful confidence allowing it to act without any unquiet interference. Now that condition is the beginning of the psychic opening; there is of course much more that afterwards comes to complete it but this is the fundamental condition into which all the rest can most easily come. In this condition there may and will be call ...
... You must not try to stop any opening. My remarks were only meant to keep you on your guard against certain errors that sadhaks often make when the cosmic consciousness opens. If there is the psychic opening with its surrender and the higher opening with its wideness and self-realisation, the two together, there is little danger of any such error. 11 October 1934 You have told me to keep on ...
... dedication free from personal demand or desire, in the physical and the lower vital parts is the thing to be established. Other things can come in their proper time. What is the real need now is the psychic opening in the physical consciousness and the constant presence and guidance there.... Sri Aurobindo ...
... consider it advisable for him that he should come here. I don’t believe half a minute “darshan” can change these habits. We have had bitter experience about them already, that they resist even a psychic opening... He must first have the sincere will to change. I intend to give an interview to Charu Dutt if he remains sufficiently long after the “Darshan”. Our love and blessings ...
... and took the next available train — in twenty minutes — to Bombay en route for Pondicherry after despatching him a telegram. The Mother told me, on November 22nd, that I had had a sudden psychic opening and, so heard his call. But I have done it — a dramatic indiscretion — even though I can truthfully claim that I have not been guilty of any overstatement. My watchful and reticent friend ...
... and vital in the surface mental ideas and their insistence on them must go. One must know that one is ignorant before one can begin to know. This shows that I am not wrong in pressing for the psychic opening as the only way out. For as the psychic opens, such responses and much more also become common and the inner change also proceeds by which they are made possible." Upon this I wrote to him ...
... been simple; refusal to look would be enough and even the faculty might disappear by atrophy through long discontinuance. But if the thoughts of others come to her of themselves, it may be the psychic opening in her inner mind, which it would be difficult to get rid of. If she could remain indifferent or push away these unwelcome visitors behind her and not think of them again, that would be one ...
... consider it advisable for him that he should come here. I don't believe half-a-minute "darshan" can change these habits. We have had bitter experience about them already, that they resist even a psychic opening ...He must first have the sincere will to change. I intend to give an interview to C if he remains sufficiently long after the "Darshan". Our love and blessings 16 February 1940 ...
... do You believe that I feel for You the love of a child for his mother? A child's love for his mother is full of a spontaneous and absolute trust. In you such a love can only be based upon a psychic opening, for the psychic is likened to a child precisely because it feels this spontaneous and absolute trust in the Divine. 12 January 1937 Mother, please make me understand where I am just ...
... consider it advisable for him that he should come here. I don't believe a half-a-minute "darshan" can change these habits. We have had bitter experience about them already, that they resist even a psychic opening. He must first have the sincere will to change. Our love and blessings. 16 January 1940 Just received and read your letter. Here is my answer. Your nature is such that you will ...
... truth-feeling is experienced, which guides you all the time. That is the positive side of the psychic being. On the negative side, in telling you what one does not do when one has some sort of psychic opening, I may Page 26 hazard a punning paradox. First, I may say that one is not depressed, one does not bewail one's lot any more; secondly, one does not rebel, either against ...
... full psychic state or opening, then experiences begin to come of them- selves. The first two at least had started of themselves in you—let them grow and the third should necessarily follow. The psychic opening first, the higher consciousness and its experiences afterwards—this is the safe road and it seems to be the one your inner consciousness wants to follow. Why not follow it? To go back to the vital's ...
... dullness and disappears. 220 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 ...
... 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 the psychic but of the emotional ...
... wings. What the Greek culture and civilisation was still continues to exist in its quintessential reality in a world to which one has access if one has the requisite kinship of consciousness and psychic opening. That soul lives in its own domain, with all the glory of its achievement and realisation at their purest; and from there it sheds its lustre, exerts its influence, acts as living leaven in the ...
... Because you are always in the mind. But when the psychic opens you cannot retain this standpoint. It becomes too vivid and too real. Have I to rise in the supermind for that? The psychic opening will raise you to that. Up to my coming here I stuck to the Vedantic idea of impersonality and even now I cannot realize with the mind what is truly meant by divine personality. How can the ...
... and veiled. 3 The third aspect of the teacher's work is to help the child to find the inner guidance. This part is the most Page 144 delicate of all: to be able to induce a psychic opening in the children he should himself always keep in touch with his soul. As The Mother said: Teachers who do not possess a perfect calm, an unfailing endurance, an unshakable quietness, ...
... triumphed. Unless the psychic is not only in front but also strongly established to take control of the other parts, the decisive descent does not occur. There are cases in which even without the psychic opening there may be the ascent. Then the course is a more chequered one. If the psychic is strong, the mind and the vital submit; but it doesn't mean that one has no more difficulties. There will still ...
... being ; it grows. It is the miracle of eternal childhood in an ever vaster kingdom. It is "within as a child to be born," says the Rig Veda (IX.83.3). The Psychic Birth The first signs of psychic opening are love and joy – a joy that may be extremely intense and powerful, but without any exaltation and without object, as calm and deep as the sea. Psychic joy does not Page 78 need anything ...
... have the complete experience that we can show a straighter and easier road to others - if they will only consent to take it. 38 And the easier road, the sunlit path, was to effect the psychic opening and from there to reach for the golden bridge to the Divine, and in everything to entrust the sadhana to the Mother. VIII The Mother and Sri Aurobindo often made it clear that the ...
... rely on that Force more, to open to it more completely and to seek spiritual progress even not for your own sake but for the sake of the Divine — then you will go on more smoothly. Get the full psychic opening in the most external physical consciousness. That and not despondency is the lesson you ought to draw from your present adverse experience. ...
... hold on you. You must learn to watch yourself and know what is the true nature and source of the movement in you and report them carefully — as in fact you had begun to do when you first had the psychic opening and could see the movements in you or many of them at least very clearly. (26.10.32) ...
... inner guidance. SRI AUROBINDO: One can get guidance by the opening of the inner being, the psychic, the inner mental or even the inner vital. Only, the psychic is more sure. DR. MANILAL: How to open the psychic? SRI AUROBINDO: There are many ways. DR. MANILAL: Please tell us one or two. SRI AUROBINDO: One can get the opening by making the mind quiet or by turning one's mind towards the... But are you conscious of everything in yourself? DR. MANILAL: Can the psychic, after opening, close up again? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes; if you ignore it, it can get clouded. Sometimes people mistake the inner mental opening for the psychic. Of course it doesn't matter very much from the practical point of view. The psychic is behind all these inner mental and vital planes. ...
... ordinary thoughts, sensations, actions, movements,—all this is very insignificant. It is only at times, when there is a flash of the higher consciousness through the psychic, an opening into something else, a contact with the psychic being (which may last for a second), at that moment, it is not insignificant. Otherwise, all the rest is repeated in millions and millions of copies. Your way of seeing... life) and because their psychic being has felt that they belonged to the same family; so they have taken an inner vow to continue to act together and collaborate. That is why even though they are born far from one another, there is something which compels them to come together; it is the psychic being, the psychic consciousness that is behind. And only to the extent the psychic consciousness is strong... conscious of their psychic being, obey their psychic being, are guided by it; otherwise there is all that comes in to oppose it, all that veils, all that stupefies, all those obstacles to prevent you from finding yourself in your depths and being able to collaborate truly in the work. You are tossed about by the forces of Nature. There is only one solution, to find your psychic being and Page ...
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