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Sweet
Mother, here Sri Aurobindo has said: "If the inmost soul is
awakened, if there is a new birth out of the mere mental, vital
and physical into the psychic consciousness, then this Yoga can
be done... ".
Why has he said "the inmost soul"? Is there a superficial
soul?
It is because this inmost soul, that is, the central
psychic being, influences the superficial parts of the consciousness
(superficial in comparison with it: mental parts, vital parts).
The purest mind, the highest vital, the emotive being- the soul
influences them, influences them to an extent where one has the
impression of entering into contact with it through these parts
of the being. So people take these parts for the soul and that is
why he says "the inmost soul", that is, the central soul,
the real soul.
For very often, when one touches certain parts of the
mind which are under the psychic influence and full of light and
the joy of that light, or when one touches certain very pure and
very high parts of the emotive being which has the most generous,
most unselfish emotions, one also has the impression of being in
contact with one's soul. But this is not the true soul, it is not
the soul in its very essence. These are parts of the being under
its influence and manifesting something of it. So, very often people
enter into contact with these parts and this gives them illuminations,
great joy, revelations, and they feel they have found their soul.
But it is only the part of the being under its influence, one part
or another, for exactly what happens is that one touches these things,
has experiences, and then it gets veiled, and one wonders, "How
is it that I touched my soul and now have fallen back into this
state of ignorance and inconscience!" But that's because one
had not touched one's soul, one had touched those parts of the being
which are under the influence of the soul and manifest something
of it, but are not it.
I have already said many times that when one enters
consciously into contact with one's soul and the union is established,
it is over, it can no longer be undone, it is something permanent,
constant, which resists everything, and which, at any moment whatever,
if referred to can be found; whereas the other things -one can have
very fine experiences, and then it gets veiled again, and one tells
oneself, "How does that happen? I saw my soul and now I don't
find it any more!" It was not the soul one had seen. And these
things are very beautiful and give you very impressive experiences,
but this is not the contact with the psychic being itself .
The contact with the psychic being is definitive,
and it is about this that I say, when people ask, "Do I have
a contact with my psychic being?", "Your question itself
proves that you don't have it!"
In everybody, is the
psychic always pure or has it. to be made pure?
It is always pure. But it is either more or less individualised
and independent in its action. What is psychic in the being is always
pure, by its very definition, for it is that part of the being which
is in contact with the Divine and expresses the truth of the being.
But this may be like a spark in the darkness of the being or it
may be a being of light, conscious, fully formed and independent.
There are all the gradations between the two.
Usually is it veiled?
It is the outer consciousness that is not in contact with it,
for it is turned outwards instead of being turned inwards -for it
lives amidst all the external noises and movements, in what it sees,
what it does, what it says, instead of looking within, into the
depths of the being and listening to the inner inspirations.
THE MOTHER
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