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Namah Notes on Counselling

Surpassing the Heart Cakra

But one has to surpass the heart cakra to
reach the psychic being. As the cakras are in
the inner being, the psychic being or soul-
essence is poised behind the heart cakra. It is
an embodiment of love and sweetness that
has been projected directly from the Unborn
and Unevolving Self and is different from the
consolidation of love in the heart cakra of the
evolutionary being. It has been projected by
the Jivatman, which has descended from the
Superconscious ranges and is thus free from
the Inconscience.

Sri Aurobindo explains:

in its pristine purity by first consolidating in “The psychic being in the old systems was
one’s heart-space and then radiating to uplift spoken of as the Purusha in the heart —
all the recalcitrant parts of the personality (the secret heart — hrdayeguhayam) which
— the doubting mind, the emotional life corresponds very well to what we define as
with its turbulences and the impure body. the psychic being behind the heart centre. It
Thus purified, love can then be offered to the was also this that went out from the body at
Divine. Thus exalted, love can spread out to death and persisted — which again corresponds
encompass others. Work at this level proceeds to our teaching that it is this which goes out
in a two-phased manner. In the surface and returns, linking new life to former life.
personality, all planes of consciousness are Also we say that the psychic is the divine
intermingled and revolve around the ego. portion within us — so too the Purusha in the
As a result, love is restrained by physical, heart is described as Ishwara of the individual
vital and mental influences, idiosyncrasies nature in some places.
and biases. Only when one moves to the
inner being, can love get disentangled from The word soul is very vaguely used in English
other influences and get connected with the — as it is often refers to the whole non-physical
Universal Love. This is the work of the heart consciousness including even the vital with all
cakra — freeing love from its attachment to its desires and passions. That is why the word
the physical, vital and mental and the ego psychic being has to be used so as to distinguish
and connecting that purified love with the this divine portion from the instrumental parts
Universal Love. This sets the stage for the of the nature (4).”
activation of the heart centre, where love
finds it exalted fulfilment. This is a great This statement sets out clearly the difference
achievement. between the psychic being and the heart

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