Psychic Self Quotes

“What are the means of bringing forward the psychic? Sri Aurobindo offers several answers according to the nature of the seeker: a constant and sincere aspiration, the will to surrender in the central being, the elimination of selfishness and demand, or a true will to get rid of the movements of the lower nature. In the end, he says, it will simply happen ‘when [we] are sufficiently advanced’.16 Sri Aurobindo then elaborates on different experiences related to the psychic plane—such as the psychic influence in our ordinary life, psychic joy and sorrow, the psychic flame as a first manifestation of the psychic being and the relation of Agni with the psychic fire—and he stresses the different movements of psychic and spiritual transformation:17


Psychisation means the change of the lower nature, bringing right vision into the mind, right impulse and feeling into the vital, right movement and habit into the physical – all turned towards the Divine, all based on love, adoration, bhakti – finally the vision and sense of the Mother everywhere in all as well as in the heart, her Force working in the being etc., faith consecration, surrender.”
― Gautam Chikermane, Reading Sri Aurobindo