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The Psychic and Opening

When I opened myself to the Mother in meditation, I saw her ap-
proaching me with an infant in her arms. As she came near, the gold-
en Purusha frowned at her and she drew back behind you. I have
seen this vision several times. What am I to do? You fill my whole
being but, despite opening myself to the Mother, she is not allowed
to approach me.

The infant in the Mother's arms is the symbol of the psychic
being. The soul in direct touch with the divine Truth is hidden in
man by the mind, the vital being and the physical nature (ma-
nas, prana, anna of the Taittiriya Upanishad); one may practise
Yoga and get illuminations in the mind and the reason, power
and all kinds of experiences in the vital, even physical siddhis,
but if the true soul-power behind and the psychic nature do
not come into the front, nothing genuine has been done. In
this Yoga, the psychic being is that which opens the rest of the
nature to the true supramental light and finally to the supreme
Ananda. If the soul is awakened, if there is a new birth out of the
mere mental, vital and physical into the psychic consciousness,
then the Yoga can be done; otherwise (by the mere power of
the mind or any other part) it is impossible. It is this new birth,
this awakening of the psychic consciousness, that the Mother
is offering in the vision. If the golden Purusha refuses it, it must
be because he is bound by some kind of attachment, probably
to mere "knowledge". In that case, he is not very consistent; for
it was he who demanded surrender to the Mother and now he
rejects the very heart and meaning of the surrender. Probably
this repeated experience is an indication of the principal diffi-
culty in the sadhana. If there is refusal of the psychic new birth,
a refusal to become the child new born from the Mother, owing

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