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for the Mother to be here at all or for the existence of the Asram
or for anyone to come here.
The psychic being is there in all, but in very few is it well de-
veloped, well built up in the consciousness or prominent in the
front; in most it is veiled, often ineffective or only an influence,
not conscious enough or strong enough to support the spiri-
tual life. It is for this reason that it is necessary for those drawn
towards this Truth to come here in order that they may receive
the touch which will bring about or prepare the wakening of
the psychic being — that is for them the beginning of the effec-
tive psychic contact. It is also for this reason that a stay here is
needed for many — if they are ready — in order that under the
direct influence and nearness they may have this development
or building up of the psychic being in the consciousness or its
coming to the front. When the touch has been given or the
development effected, so far as the sadhak is at the moment
capable of it, he returns to the outside world and under the pro-
tection and guidance even at a distance is able to keep the con-
tact and go on with his spiritual life. But the influences of the
outside world are not favourable to the psychic contact and
the psychic development and, if the sadhak is not sufficiently
careful or concentrated, the psychic contact may easily be lost
after a time or get covered over and the development may be-
come retarded, stationary or even diminished by adverse influ-
ences or movements. It is therefore that the necessity exists
and is often felt of a return to the place of the central influence
in order to fortify or recover the contact or to restore or give
a fresh forward impulse to the development. The aspiration for
such nearness from time to time is not a vital desire; it becomes
a vital desire only when it is egoistically insistent or mixed with
a vital motive,—but not if it is an aspiration of the psychic being
calm, deep and without clamour in it or perturbing insistence.

28 All India Magazine, August 2026