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New Birth

The psychic new birth
The soul, the psychic being, is in direct touch with the divine
Truth, but it is hidden in man by the mind, the vital being and
the physical nature (manas, prana, anna of the Taittiriya Upa-
nishad). One may practise Yoga and get illuminations in the
mind and the reason; one may conquer power and luxuriate
in all kinds of experiences in the vital; one may establish even
surprising physical siddhis; but if the true soul-power behind
does not manifest, if the psychic nature does 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. Mind can
open by itself to its own higher reaches; it can still itself and
widen into the Impersonal; it may too spiritualise itself in some
kind of static liberation or Nirvana; but the supramental cannot
find a sufficient base in spiritualised mind alone. If the inmost
soul is awakened, if there is a new birth out of the mere men-
tal, vital and physical into the psychic consciousness, then this
Yoga can be done; otherwise (by the sole power of the mind
or any other part) it is impossible. If there is a refusal of the
psychic new birth, a refusal to become the child new born from
the Mother, owing to attachment to intellectual knowledge or
mental ideas or to some vital desire, then there will be a failure
in the sadhana.
CWSA 30: 337-38 Sri Aurobindo

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