In the sealed hermetic heart, the happy core,
Unmoved behind this outer shape of death
The eternal Entity prepares within
Its matter of divine felicity,
Its reign of heavenly phenomenon.
Sri Aurobindo
Savitri, Book II, Canto V, page 170.
What is the best way of preparing ourselves, until we can establish a new system?
Naturally, it is to widen and illumine your consciousness — but how to do it? Your own consciousness… to widen and illumine it. And if you could find, each one of you, your psychic and unite with it, all the problems would be solved.
The psychic being is the representative of the Divine in the human being. That’s it, you see — the Divine is not something remote and inaccessible. The Divine is in you but you are not fully conscious of it. Rather you have… it acts now as an influence rather than as a Presence. It should be a conscious Presence, you should be able at each moment to ask yourself what is… how… how the Divine sees. It is like that: first how the Divine sees, and then how the Divine wills, and then how the Divine acts. And it is not to go away into inaccessible regions, it is right here. Only, for the moment, all the old habits and the general unconsciousness put a kind of covering which prevents us from seeing and feeling. You must… you must lift, you must lift that up.
In fact, you must become conscious instruments… conscious… conscious of the Divine..
Usually this takes a whole lifetime, or sometimes, for some people it is several lifetimes. Here, in the present conditions, you can do it in a few months. For those who are… who have an ardent aspiration, in a few months they can do it.
The Mother
On Education, CWM Volume 12, page 428.