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Namah Vol. 33, Issue 2, 15th July 2025

cakra. The psychic being departs at death, the third dimension by a strip of cosmic
goes to a resting-place where it accumulates consciousness. Like an astronaut who
all its experiences and returns to a new life, swims through space from one spaceship
providing the continuity between lives. to another, one has to navigate one’s way
The heart cakra does not have this property. to the soul-space. Or one can imagine to
Indeed, the psychic being accumulates all the cross a number of boats aligned side-by-
pristine experiences of a lifetime, experiences side in a river to reach the last boat, each
which have a divine element or which signal boat separated from the other by a strip
a change in consciousness and takes these to of water.
remain as memory-templates in the psychic
world before it returns back to the world in The psychic being is poised in the soul-space.
a new alignment. One may not be able yet to view the small
regent — the thumb-sized being in the soul-
The Soul-Space space. But one can feel or imagine a flame
there. Or else one may imagine that space
holding a lotus or the divine image of the
Mother or Sri Aurobindo or both. Or one may
imagine a space of purity and peace and love
and Bliss or AAnanda.

This space of Love and AAnanda is different
from the usual outer space in us which holds
our emotions.

“The pure psychic being is of the essence of
Ananda, it comes from the delight-soul in the
universe; but the superficial heart of emotion
is overborne by the conflicting appearances of
the world and suffers many reactions of grief,
fear, depression, passion, short-lived and partial
joy (5).”

Divine Love
Therefore, we have to cross the third
dimension and surpass the heart cakra to It is worthwhile to muse on the comments by
reach the soul-space in the fourth dimension the Mother on Divine Love and her answer
where the psychic being is poised. The to a query:
fourth dimension is further and deeper
and situated in the cosmic consciousness. “Each one of you should be able to get into
It is not an extension backwards of our touch with your own psychic being, it is not
consciousness, but a new space signalling an inaccessible thing. Your psychic being is
a new consciousness. It is separated from there precisely to put you in contact with the

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