... and make it their own, but not bring in their own deviations or any degraded mixture into it. There is a dynamic joy as well as the self-existent joy in the soul itself. Psychic Sorrow There is a psychic sorrow which usually comes when the soul feels how strong is the resistance in the world and how much the Forces in it rage against the Mother. It is the soul, the psychic being in... turbid expression—otherwise there is nothing disturbing in a psychic sorrow. The psychic sadness is of a purifying and not a depressing kind. There are many things that are spiritual that are not the essence of the higher consciousness. All that tends towards the transformation and helps to prepare it is spiritual. Psychic sorrow is a spiritual movement, but sorrow is not part of the essential... the heart, that is awake and wants to concentrate the mind on the Divine. It is the nature of the mind to go out to other things, but now when it does that, there is the unease in the heart, the psychic sorrow because the heart feels at once that this is wrong and the head Page 374 also aches because of the resistance to the Divine Force at work. This is a thing that often happens at an early ...
... count them. But today they were many, almost like weeping. There is a psychic sorrow which is not like the vital one — but it may be that the feeling came from the psychic but the vital took it up. My experience was somewhat disturbing. Could a psychic Page 199 sorrow be like that? The vital took it up perhaps and gave it a more vehement... otherwise there is nothing disturbing in a psychic sorrow. I doubt if these were merely the tears of joy, for I could not then have left my head on the Mother's lap for such a long time. I had almost become unconscious of myself when the tears were springing out. I did not mean that they were tears of joy. There is a psychic sorrow which usually comes when the soul feels... consciousness? The soul is always pure, but the knowledge and force in it are involved and come out only as the psychic being evolves and grows stronger. PSYCHIC TEARS AND PSYCHIC SORROW When the Mother was throwing a last glance at us while returning from the Pranam, some tears and a profound feeling came out from my heart. It is the natural ...
... the soul within that experiences life and develops with evolving mind and life and body. The psychic does not suffer like the vital or body, it has not pain or anguish or despair; but it has a psychic sorrow which is different from these things. It has a kind of quiet sweet sadness of yearning which it feels when things go against the Divine, when the obscurity and obstacles are too heavy, when the ...
... the Divine. This can bring much suffering because of the nature of the vital, its unquiet passions, desires, ardours, troubled emotions, cloudings, depressions, despairs. The psychic can have a psychic sorrow when things go against its diviner yearnings, but this sorrow has in it no touch of torment, depression or despair. Nevertheless all cannot approach, at least cannot at once approach the Divine ...
... flow of tears in my eyes. There is no unrest or disturbance in it, rather there is a feeling of calm and purity and a deep gravity associated with it. Is this what is called the psychic sorrow? "A: Yes, there is a psychic sorrow of that kind—but psychic tears need not be sorrowful, there are also tears of emotion and joy." × ... suffering added to the collective suffering of the Divine. It is from a state of deep compassion that the Divine acts in Matter and this deep compassion is translated in Matter precisely by this psychic sorrow which is spoken about here. 1 We read that this evening. That is as though something were reversed, it is the same thing but reversed in this way ( Mother joins her hands and then opens them ...
... a concentration within in the heart with a healing there and a pain of the yearning within followed by its sweetness. This pain is that of the psychic sorrow or perhaps rather of the psycho-vital Page 289 sorrow and yearning—for the psychic sorrow itself is usually sweet and not painful. 2 August 1936 Nowadays I get an inspiration to see all in the Mother and the Mother in all—to ...
... depression a necessary consequence of the thirst being unsatisfied; that may lead to a more ardent thirst or to a fixed resolution and persistent effort or to a more and more yearning call or to a psychic sorrow which is not at all identical with depression and despair. Depression is a clouded grey state in its nature and it is more difficult for light to come through clouds and greyness than through... spoken appreciatively of the feeling from which they come and never discouraged them. Tears of bhakti or tears of a high or pure emotion are not looked down upon by us. We have always spoken of psychic sorrow also as a thing to be respected, an emotion which is helpful and true in its place. Why then should it be supposed that emotion is discouraged and an empty heart is demanded of the spiritual ...
... not considered as a means or even a stage in the sadhana. But that does not mean that duḥkha does not come in the sadhana—it comes and has to be rejected and overcome, overpassed—excepting the psychic sorrow which does not disturb or depress but rather liberates the vital. To make a vāda or gospel of sorrow is dangerous because sorrow if indulged becomes a habit, sticks and few things, if once they ...
... movement—it has, that is to say, the quality of metrical poetry without its fetters. As for the poem itself, it is magnificently beautiful; it has that psychic quality—here the expression of a psychic sorrow—which is so rare and the language is luminous and felicitous all through. 1 November 1936 The High-flashing Fountains of Song Subdued the light at the gray evenhush, As the shadowy ...
... soul with the superficial vital life that brought you away from the outer world and it is the same dissatisfaction a hundred times increased and accompanied with Page 141 an intense psychic sorrow that would come on you if you went away from the Yoga. Your vital mind (which is the one which revolts and doubts) has strange misconceptions about the spiritual state. There is no grimness ...
... depression a necessary consequence of the thirst being unsatisfied; that may lead to a more ardent thirst or to a fixed resolution and persistent effort or to a more and more yearning call or to a psychic sorrow which is not at all identical with depression and despair. Depression is a clouded grey state in its nature and it is more difficult for light to come through clouds and greyness than through a ...
... be easier than by an outward rule for your main guidance. I hope you will be able to reject this duḥkha ; it must be an attempt of something of the old consciousness to come back,—for a psychic sorrow would not burn. These things come from the subconscient, so for such a grief no particular reason would be necessary. It is the force of sorrow in itself that rises like that and lays a claim on ...
... dissatisfaction of the soul with the superficial vital life that brought you away from the outer world and it is the same dissatisfaction a hundred times increased and accompanied with an intense psychic sorrow that would come on you if you went away from the Yoga. Your vital mind (which is the one which revolts and doubts) has strange misconceptions about the spiritual state. There is no grimness ...
... ess? There are many things that are spiritual that are not the essence of the higher consciousness. All that tends towards the transformation and helps to prepare it is spiritual. Psychic sorrow is a spiritual movement, but sorrow is not part of the essential character of the higher consciousness. Resignation, the ego's submission to the divine will is a spiritual movement, but the higher ...
... suffering added to the collective suffering of the Divine. The Divine acts upon Matter in a state of deep compassion: this compassion is translated in Matter and is figured there by what we call Psychic Sorrow. It is, as it were, a reversed image of the original reality. The Divine's compassion, translated in the individual physical consciousness, becomes a sorrow that is not egoistic, a sorrow ...
... said, a psychic change. SRI AUROBINDO ( breaking into laughter on hearing about the confirmation of his own joke ): It looks like a well-disposed cow and a bit of a dog too. But there is more psychic sorrow in it than joy—sorrow over the sins of the world. ( Laughter ) Have you heard that the thief has paid rather heavily for a little bag of husk? He has been handed over to the Police; he will ...
... suffering added to the collective suffering of the Divine. The Divine acts upon Matter in a state of deep compassion: this compassion is translated in Matter and is figured there by what we call Psychic Sorrow. It is, as it were, a reversed image of the original reality. The Divine's compassion, translated in the individual physical consciousness, becomes a sorrow that is not egoistic, a sorrow that ...
... Aurobindo’s Letters) At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo 17 March 1935 A weeping that comes with the feeling you speak of is the sign of a psychic sorrow — for it translates an aspiration of the psychic being. But depression and hopelessness ought not to come. You should rather cling to the faith that since there is a true aspiration in you — and ...
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