A genius of creative Immanence,
Makes all creation deeply intimate:
A fourth dimension of aesthetic sense
Where all is in ourselves, ourselves in all,
To the cosmic wideness re-aligns our souls.
A kindling rapture joins the seer and seen;
The craftsman and the craft grown inly one
Achieve perfection by the magic throb
And passion of their close identity
Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Book II, Canto II, page 112
Sweet Mother, where does our true spiritual life begin?
The true spiritual life begins when one is in communion with the Divine in the psychic, when one is conscious of the divine Presence in the psychic and in constant communion with the psychic. Then the spiritual life begins, not before. The true spiritual life.
When one is united with one’s psychic being and conscious of the divine Presence, and receives the impulses for one’s action from this divine Presence, and when the will has become a conscious collaborator with the divine Will — that is the starting point.
Before that, one may be an aspirant to the spiritual life, but one doesn’t have a spiritual life.
Traditional yoga does not have the word psychic.
So what is the psychic? It is a somewhat liberated soul – very far from atman or self and also very far from God – that is surrendered to the divine will.
That soul – has its mind, intellect and emotions subdued. If someone hurts them they don’t get hurt. Oh God’s will. If they lose money. They are still happy. It was part of the divine plan. If they gain money. They are not happy or excited. Just peaceful. They work with divine guidance. At this stage they slowly begin to talk with divine people from the past. Not an imaginary talk but face to face
This may seem very high but much much more is there beyond it.
The poem is from Savitri my Aurobindo. It describes the Atman. Which is much higher than the psychic.
Bhavin