An advice was given by a wise elderly to a youngster who had inflated expectations from people where he would be going: “… don't be satisfied with a psychic opening; you need to rise to the higher mental levels as well.” This kind of advice prompted a seeker to check with the Mother. What she says is given in the following. She is emphatic about the psychic coming forward and guiding us: “There is … only one remedy: be on your guard, hold fast to the psychic, do not allow anything in your consciousness to slip in between your psychic and yourself, close your ears and your understanding to all other suggestions and rely only on the psychic.”

The Mother continues: “Usually, those who become conscious of their psychic being expect that it will liberate them from vital and physical attractions and activities; they seek to escape from the world in order to live in the joy of contemplation of the Divine, and in the immutable peace of constant contact with Him. The attitude of those who want to practise Sri Aurobindo’s integral yoga is quite different. When they have found their psychic being and are united with it, they ask it to turn its gaze towards the physical being in order to act on it with the knowledge that comes from the contact with the Divine, and to transform the body so that it may be able to receive and manifest the divine consciousness and harmony.”

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