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divine forces. And if you are in contact with “You must make an effort to come into touch
your psychic being, you begin to feel, to have with your psychic being, to become aware and
a kind of perception of what divine Love free in the consciousness of your psychic being,
can be. As I have just said, it is not enough and then, quite naturally, spontaneously, you
that one morning you wake up saying, will know what divine Love is (6).”
‘Oh! I would like to be in contact with
divine Love’, it is not like that. If, through References
a sustained effort, a deep concentration,
a great forgetfulness of self, you succeed 1. The Mother. The Collected Works of the Mother,
in coming into touch with your psychic Volume 16. 2 ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
nd
being, you will never dream of thinking, Ashram Trust; 2003, p. 399.
‘Oh! I would like to be in contact with
divine Love’ — you are in a state in which 2. Sri Aurobindo. The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo
everything appears to you to be this divine Volume 33-34. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Love and nothing else. And yet it is only Trust; 1997, p. 28.
a covering, but a covering of a beautiful
texture. 3. The Mother. Collected Works, Volume 7; 2003, p. 269.

“So, divine Love need not be sought and known 4. Sri Aurobindo. Complete Works, Volume 28; 2012,
apart from the psychic being? p. 112.

“No, find your psychic being and you will 5. Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary
understand what divine Love is. Do not try Library, Volume 21. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
to come into direct contact with divine Love Ashram Trust; 1970. pp. 708-09.
because this will yet again be a vital desire
pushing you; you will be perhaps not be 6. The Mother. Collected Works, Volume 4; pp.
aware of it, but it will be a vital desire. 245-46.

Dr. Soumitra Basu, a practising psychiatrist and member of SAIIIHR, is the Director of a school of
psychology, Integral Yoga Psychology. He is also one of the editors of NAMAH.

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