One
can concentrate in any of the three centres which is easiest
to the sadhak or gives most result. The power of the concentration
in the heart-centre is to open that centre and by the power of
aspiration, love, bhakti, surrender remove the veil which covers
and conceals the soul and bring forward the soul or psychic being
to govern the mind, life and body and turn and open them all
fully to the Divine, removing all that is opposed to that turning
and opening.
This is what is called in this yoga the psychic
transformation. The power of concentration above the head is to bring peace,
silence, liberation from the body sense, the identification with mind and life
and open the way for the lower (mental, vital, physical) consciousness to rise
up to meet the higher consciousness above and for the powers of the higher (spiritual
nature) consciousness to descend into mind, life and body.This is what is called
in this yoga the spiritual transformation. If one begins with this movement then
the Power from above has in its descent to open all the centres (including the
lowest centre) and to bring out the psychic being; for until that is done there
is likely to be much difficulty and struggle of the lower consciousness obstructing,
mixing with or even refusing the Divine Action from above. If the psychic being
is once active this struggle and these difficulties can be greatly minimised.
The power of concentration in the eyebrows is to
open the centre there, liberate the inner mind and vision and the inner or yogic
consciousness and its experiences and powers. From here also one can open upwards
and act also in the lower centres; but the danger of this process is that one
may get shut up in one's mental spiritual formations and not come out of them
into the free and integral spiritual experience and knowledge and integral change
of the being and nature.
Sri
Aurobindo |