August 19, 2009 – The Psychic and the Truth

This I have seen that whatever God has withheld from me,
He withheld in His love & wisdom. Had I grasped it then,
I would have turned some great good into a great poison.
Yet sometimes when we insist,
He gives us poison to drink that we may learn to turn from it
and taste with knowledge His ambrosia & His nectar.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 470)

The Psychic and the Truth

The psychic is moved by the Truth. The Truth is something eternally self-existent and dependent on nothing in time or space, whereas the psychic being is a being that grows, takes form, progresses, individ­ualises itself more and more. In this way it becomes more and more capable of manifesting this Truth, the eternal Truth that is one and permanent. The psychic being is a progressive being, which means that the relation between the psychic being and the Truth is a progressive one. It is not possible to become aware of one’s psychic being without becoming aware at the same time of the inner Truth. All those who have had this experience-not a mental experience but an integral experience of contact with the psychic being, not a contact with the idea they have con­structed of it, but a truly concrete contact -all say the same thing: from the very minute this contact takes place, one is absolutely conscious of the eternal Truth within oneself and one sees that it is the purpose of life and the guide of the world.

– The Mother
The Great Adventure, Page 188

All extracts and quotations from the written works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are copyright Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry -605002 India
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