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Sri Aurobindo

The contribution of the psychic being to the sadhana is:

  1. Love and bhakti, a love not vital, demanding and egoistic but unconditioned and without claims, self-existent;
  2. the contact or the presence of the Mother within;
  3. the unerring guidance from within;
  4. a quieting and purification of the mind, vital and physical consciousness by their subjection to the psychic influence and guidance;
  5. the opening up of all this lower consciousness to the higher spiritual consciousness above for its descent into a nature prepared to receive it with a complete receptivity and right attitude—for the psychic brings in everything right thought, right perception, right feeling, right attitude.

One can raise up one’s consciousness from the mental and vital and bring down the power, Ananda, light, knowledge from above; but this is far more difficult and uncertain in its result, even dangerous, if the being is not prepared or not pure enough. To ascend with the psychic for the purpose is by far the best way. If you are thus rising from the psychic centre, so much the better.

What you say indicates that the psychic and mental centres are in communication and through them you are able to bring down things from the higher consciousness. But you have not changed your head centre for the above-head centre or for the above-head wideness. That usually comes by a gradual rising of the conscious parts to the top of the head and then above it. But this must not be strained after or forced; it will come of itself.

 

Ref : Letters on Yoga – III

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