Page 10 - NAMAH-Oct-2022

Namah Vol. 30, Issue 3, 15th October 2022

While an experiential contact with the Unmanifest have to be outgrown in the spiritual increase of
a
Self or Jivatman conveys the ever-expanding the being. The fundamental psychic entity in us
wideness of consciousness and dimension of has the delight of life and all experience as part
impersonality, the contact with the psychic of the progressive manifestation of the spirit,
being brings an efflorescence of the most but the very principle of its delight of life is to
intense movements of joy, love, sweetness, gather out of all contacts and happenings their
peace, purity, devotion and beauty. secret divine sense and essence, a divine use and
purpose so that by experience our mind and
The psychic being carries the deepest life may grow out of the Inconscience towards
imprints of life-memories which are tagged a supreme consciousness, out of the divisions
with divinity, memories which are pure and of the Ignorance towards an integralising
sublime, memories which are not influenced consciousness and knowledge. It is there for that
by the subconscious. These memory imprints and it pursues from life to life its ever-increasing
that are stored in the psychic being outlive the upward tendency and insistence: the growth of
lifespan of the individual to remain as memory the soul is a growth out of darkness into light,
transcripts in the cosmic consciousness and can out of falsehood into truth, out of suffering into
influence future lives of one or more individuals its own supreme and universal Ananda (1)”.
in myriad ways. The psychic being therefore
carries the missing link that connects lives How can we work on our psychic being?
through the vicissitudes of Time. The Mother explains:

The psychic being as a centre of integration “Through interiorisation and concentration one
can take over the function of leading the has to enter into conscious contact with one’s
being instead of the ego. It also carries the psychic being. This psychic being always has an
quintessence of health and well-being and is influence on the outer being, but that influence is
justifiably the harbinger of Integral Health. A almost always occult, neither seen nor perceived
person poised in the psychic consciousness nor felt, save on truly exceptional occasions.
can remain stable and happy in the midst of the
most outwardly unfavourable circumstances In order to strengthen the contact and aid, if
that extend even to life-threatening illnesses possible, the development of the conscious
and terminal states. psychic personality, one should, while
concentrating, turn towards it, aspire to
As the true centre of integration, the psychic know it and feel it, open oneself to receive
being divinises human life. its influence, and take great care, each time
that one receives an indication from it, to
How does the psychic being act? follow it very scrupulously and sincerely.
Sri Aurobindo explains: To live in a great aspiration, to take care to
become inwardly calm and remain so always
“It is the soul in us which turns always towards as far as possible, to cultivate a perfect
Truth, Good and Beauty, because it is by these sincerity in all the activities of one’s being
things that itself grows in stature: the rest, their — these are the essential conditions for the
opposites, are a necessary part of experience, but growth of the psychic being (2)”.

10