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Develop a Personal Relation with the Divine

The realisation of the psychic being, its awakening and the
bringing of it in front depend mainly on the extent to which one
can develop a personal relation with the Divine, a relation of
bhakti, love, reliance, self-giving, rejection of the insistences of
the separating and self-asserting mental, vital and physical ego.
CWSA 30 : 360

... true Bhakti for God or for the Guru is quite different from mental
or vital Bhakti. ...
Both of them (the mental and the vital) have got an arriere
pens´ee (mental reservation) in their surrender. ...
Psychic Bhakti is not like that. Because it is in communication
with the Divinity behind, it is capable of true Bhakti. Psychic Bhak-
ti does not make any demand, it makes no reservations. It is satis-
fied with its own existence. The psychic being knows how to obey
the Truth in the right way. It gives itself up truly to God or the
Guru, and because it can give itself up truly, therefore it can also
receive truly.
CWSA 36: 380-81

If desire is rejected and no longer governs the thought, feeling
or action and there is the steady aspiration of an entirely sincere
self-giving, the psychic usually after a time opens of itself.
CWSA 30: 349

Bhakti is not an experience, it is a state of the heart and soul. It is
a state which comes when the psychic being is awake and promi-
nent. It is for that reason that I asked you to cleave to the psychic
way and not go back to that of vital desire.
CWSA 29: 95 Sri Aurobindo

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