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Is it the psychic
will which wants the being to be identified with the Divine?
Yes, surely. It is the will of the
psychic. It is also the very reason of its existence. It is for
that it is there. For example, in the mind certain activities (and
even at times in the physical and vital) ...awaken to the influence
of the psychic without even knowing it. That is why those parts
adhere to it and begin to aspire also for the divine knowledge,
the divine union, the relation with the Divine.
What is the work
of the psychic being?
What is the work of the psychic being? You want
it to have some work? What do you want to say exactly? What is its
function? Ah! very well. One could put it this way, that it is like
an electric wire that connects the generator with the lamp. Now,
if someone has understood, let him explain what I said!
What is the generator
and what the lamp? (Laughter)
Ah, there are! So, what is the generator and what
the lamp? That is exactly it. What is the generator and what the
lamp ? Or rather, who is the generator and who is the lamp?
The generator is the
Divine and the lamp is the body.
It is the body, it is the visible being.
So, that is its function. This means that if there were
no psychic in Matter, it would not be able to have any direct contact
with the Divine. And it is happily due to this psychic presence
in Matter that the contact between Matter and the Divine can be
direct and all human beings can be told, "You carry the Divine
within you, and you have only to enter within yourself and you will
find Him. " It is. something very particular to the human being
or rather to the inhabitants of the earth. In the human being the
psychic becomes more conscious, more formed, more conscious and
more independent also. It is individualised in human beings. But
it is a speciality of the earth. It is a direct infusion, special
and redeeming, in the most inconscient and obscure Matter, so that
it might once again awake through stages to the divine Consciousness,
the divine Presence and finally to the Divine Himself. It is the
presence of the psychic which makes man an exceptional being- I
don't like to tell him this very much, because already he thinks
too much of himself; he has such a high opinion of himself that
it is not necessary to encourage him! But still, this is a fact
-so much so that there are beings of other domains of the universe,
those called by some people demigods and even gods, beings, for
instance, of what Sri Aurobindo calls the Overmind, who are very
eager to take a physical body on earth to have the experience of
the psychic, for they don't have it. These beings certainly have
many qualities that men don't, but they lack this divine presence
which is altogether exceptional and exists only on the earth and
nowhere else. All these inhabitants of the higher worlds, the Higher
Mind, Overmind and other regions have no psychic being. Of course,
the beings of the vital worlds don't have it either. But these latter
don't regret it, they don't want it. There are only those very rare
ones, quite exceptional, who want to be converted, and for this
they act without delay, they immediately take a physical body. The
others don't want it; it is something which binds them and constrains
them to a rule they do not want.
But it is a fact, so I am obliged to state that
this is how it is, that it is an exceptional quality of the human
being to carry within himself the psychic and, truly speaking, he
does not take full advantage from it. He does not seem to consider
this quality as soqlething very, very desirable, from the way he
treats this presence -exactly that! He prefers to it the ideas of
his mind, prefers the desires of his vital being and the habits
of his physical.
The Mother
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