The world is a masked form of Sachchidananda, and ,the nature of the consciousness of Sachchidananda, and therefore the thing in which His force must always find and achieve itself is divine Bliss, an omnipresent self-delight.. ..To seek for delight is therefore the fundamental impulse and sense of Life ; to find and possess and fulfil it is its whole motive But where in us is this principle of Delight ? ...That term is something in us which we sometimes call, in a special sense, the soul-that is to say, the psychic entity which is not the life or the mind, much less the body, but which holds in itself the opening and flowering of the essence of all these to their own peculiar delight of self, to light, to love, to joy and beauty and to a refined purity of being.
- Sri Aurobindo
There is concealed behind individual love, obscured by its ignorant human figure, a mystery which the mind cannot seize, the mystery of the body of the Divine, the secret of a mystic form of the Infinite which we can approach only through the ecstasy of the heart and the passion of the pure and sublimated sense, and its attraction which is the call of the divine Flute-player, the mastering compulsion of the All- Beautiful can only be seized and seize us through an occult love and yearning which in the end makes one the Form and the Formless, and identifies Spirit and Matter. It is that which the spirit in Love is seeking here in the darkness of the Ignorance and it is that which it finds when individual human love is changed into the love of the Immanent Divine incarnate in the material universe. SRI AUROBINDO, The Synthesis of Yoga, I, ch. VI.
- Sri Aurobindo
The Heart has Wings
There are people in whom the psychic movement, the emotional impulse is stronger than intellectual understanding. They feel an irresistible attraction for the Divine without knowing, without having the slightest idea of what it is, of what it can be, what it represents -nothing, no intellectual notion -but a kind of impulse, attraction, a need, an inevitable need.
And these people who have that, if, I may say as a result of the Grace, they have a mind which does not trouble them, does not question, does not discuss, go very fast. ... There are others who understand first, who are very intellectual, have studied, can play with words and ideas, who will give you brilliant lectures on all the philosophies, all the religions, all human conceptions and who, perhaps, will take years to advance one step. Because all that goes on in the head.
Many things go on in the head. I have told you this already several times, the head is like a public square. Anything at all can enter there, come, cross over, go out, and create a lot of disorder. And people who are in the habit of playing with ideas are the ones most hampered from going farther. It is a game that's pretty, attractive; it gives you the impression that you are not altogether ordinary , at the level of ordinary lift, but it cuts the wings. It's not the head which has wings: it's the heart.
-THE MOTHER
Mantra Given by Sri Aurobindo
Om Anandmayi Chaitanyamayi Satyamayi parame.