Psychic Being

The soul, the psychic being is in direct touch with the Divine Truth, but it is bidden in man by the mind, the vital being and the physical nature. If there is a refusal of the psychic new birth, a refusal to become the child new born from the Mother, owing to attachment to intellectual knowledge or mental ideas or to some vital desire, then there will be a failure in the sadhana.

If you want a more swift and visible progress, it can only be by bringing your psychic to the front through a constant self-offering. Aspire intensely, but without impatience.

The psychic being will not need the support of intellectual ideas or outer signs and helps. It is that alone that can give you the direct feeling of the Divine, the constant nearness, the inner support and aid. You will not then feel the Mother remote or have any further doubt about the realisation; for the mind thinks and the vital craves but the soul feels and knows the Divine. If you want to succeed in this Yoga, you must take your stand on the psychic relation and reject the egoistic vital movement. The psychic being coming to the front and staying there is the decisive movement in the Yoga.

Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction, not from the vital’s or the body’s. The vital is never satisfied; the body soon ceases to be moved at all by what it easily or always has. Only the psychic being brings the real joy and felicity.

Aspiration, constant and sincere, and the will to turn to the Divine alone are the best means to bring forward the psychic.

Purification and consecration are two great necessities of sadhana. Those who have experiences before purification run a great risk: it is much better to have the heart pure first, for then the way becomes safe. That is why I advocate the psychic change of the nature first: — for that means the purification of the heart.

Awakening means the conscious action of the psychic from behind. When the psychic comes to the front, it invades the mind and vital and body and psychosis’s their movements. It comes best by aspiration and an unquestioning and entire turning and surrender to the Mother.

The inner being is composed of the inner mental, the inner vital, the inner physical. The psychic is the inmost supporting all the others.

It is the soul, the psychic being in you, behind 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 also aches because of the resistance to the Divine Force at work. This is a thing that often happens at an early stage, after the opening of the consciousness to the sadhana.

The psychic being is one’s own individual soul-being. It is not the Divine, though it has come from the Divine and develops towards the Divine.

The Mother:

There is not one person in a million who has a conscious relation with his psychic being, even for a moment. The psychic being can work from within, but, for the external being, in such an invisible and unconscious way as if it did not exist. In most cases, in almost all cases, in fact, the psychic being is asleep, as it were, not active at all, but in a kind of torpor. It is only by Sadhana and persistent effort that one can arrive at a conscious connection with one’s psychic being.

I am always present in your psychic being. It is there that you can and ought to find me, and when you will find me there, in the depths of your heart, you will recognise me also in my physical form.