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To Bring Forward the Psychic Being

Aspiration, constant and sincere, and the will to turn to the Divine
alone are the best means to bring forward the psychic.
Fix a time every day when you can be free and undisturbed; sit
comfortably and think of your psychic being with an aspiration to
enter into contact with it. If you don’t succeed immediately, don’t
be discouraged; you are sure to succeed one day. I only ask that
you let me know what time you have chosen so that I can help you
more consciously.
CWM 17: 363

To live in a great aspiration, to take care to become inwardly calm
and remain so always as far as possible, to cultivate a perfect sin-
cerity in all the activities of one’s being — these are the essential
conditions for the growth of the psychic being.
CWM 16: 222 The Mother

A first condition of the soul’s complete emergence is a direct
contact in the surface being with the spiritual Reality. Because it
comes from that, the psychic element in us turns always towards
whatever in phenomenal Nature seems to belong to a higher Real-
ity and can be accepted as its sign and character. At first, it seeks
this Reality through the good, the true, the beautiful, through all
that is pure and fine and high and noble: but although this touch
through outer signs and characters can modify and prepare the
nature, it cannot entirely or most inwardly and profoundly change
it. For such an inmost change the direct contact with the Reality
itself is indispensable since nothing else can so deeply touch the
foundations of our being and stir it or cast the nature by its stir
into a ferment of transmutation.
CWSA 22: 934 Sri Aurobindo

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