WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

Contact with the psychic being

13 October 1954

Mother, the psychic being in us is always in contact with the Divine: so one should have this experience all the time, for...

If one were in contact with one's psychic being all the time, yes. But it is a fact: from the moment one is in contact with one's psychic being all the time, one is in contact with the divine Presence all the time. And you may reverse the statement and say, "I shall know that I am in contact with my psychic being all [old p. 366]the time, when I am in contact with the divine Presence all the time, in all things. This will be a proof for me that I am in contact with my psychic being." [new p. 366]

This changes the state of consciousness totally, totally, one cannot...

You know, there are people who come and ask you, "Am I conscious of my psychic being?" One can tell them, "This itself is the proof that you are not." Because if you are, you can no longer ask this. It changes your state of consciousness completely.