The Psychic Being and the Manifestation of Divine Love

The vital nature of man is impatient and tends to be driven by desire in various forms. It also tries to seize upon the higher movements and utilise them for its own self-aggrandisement and vital satisfactions. For this reason, some of the higher divine powers are held back awaiting the psychic transformation and the shift of the consciousness away from the surface nature. In particular, the power of Divine Love is one that is generally reserved for a later stage of development.

Sri Aurobindo notes in this book The Mother: “There are other great personalities of the Divine Mother, but they were more difficult to bring down and have not stood out in front with so much prominence in the evolution of the earth-spirit. There are among them Presences indispensable for the supramental realisation, — most of all one who is her Personality of that mysterious and powerful ecstasy and Ananda which flows from a supreme divine Love, the Ananda that alone can heal the gulf between the highest heights of the supramental spirit and the lowest abysses of Matter, the Ananda that holds the key of a wonderful divinest Life and even now supports from its secrecies the work of all the other Powers of the universe. But human nature, bounded, egoistic and obscure is inapt to receive those great Presences or to support their might action. Only when the Four have founded their harmony and freedom of movement in the transformed mind and life and body, can those other rare Powers manifest in the earth movement and the supramental action become possible.”

The Mother observes: “Each one of you should be able to get into touch with your own psychic being, it is not an inaccessible thing. Your psychic being is there precisely to put you in contact with the divine forces. And if you are in contact with your psychic being, you begin to feel, to have a kind of perception of what divine Love can be. As I have just said, it is not enough that one morning you wake up saying, ‘Oh! I would like to be in contact with divine Love’, it is not like that. If, through a sustained effort, a deep concentration, a great forgetfulness of self, you succeed in coming into touch with your psychic being, you will never dream of thinking, ‘Oh! I would like to be in contact with divine Love’ – you are in a state in which everything appears to you to be this divine Love and nothing else. And yet it is only a covering, but a covering of a beautiful texture.”

A disciple asks: “So, divine Love need not be sought and known apart from the psychic being?”

The Mother replies: “No, find your psychic being and you will understand what divine Love is. Do not try to come into direct contact with divine Love because this will yet again be a vital desire pushing you; you will perhaps not be aware of it, but it will be a vital desire.”

“You must make an effort to come into touch with your psychic being, to become aware and free in the consciousness of your psychic being, and then, quite naturally, spontaneously, you will know what divine Love is.”

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, The Psychic Being — Soul: Its Nature, Mission and Evolution, Section 6 More Lights on the Psychic Being, pp. 184-185