Page 8 - All India Magazine Nov-2019

I have known children who were much more conscious of their
psychic being at the age of five than at fourteen, and at four-
teen than at twenty-five; and above all, from the moment they
go to school where they undergo that kind of intensive mental
training which draws their attention to the intellectual part of
their being, they lose almost always and almost completely this
contact with their psychic being.
CWM 4: 26

Look carefully, then, into the eyes of little children, and you will
see a kind of light — some describe it as candid — but so true,
so true, which looks at the world with wonder. Well, this sense
of wonder, it is the wonder of the psychic which sees the truth
but does not understand much about the world, for it is too far
from it. Children have this but as they learn more, become more
intelligent, more educated, this is effaced, and you see all sorts
of things in their eyes: thoughts, desires, passions, wickedness
— but this kind of little flame, so pure, is no longer there. And
you may be sure it is the mind that has got in there, and the
psychic has gone very far behind.
CWM 4: 26-27

Gods and the psychic being
The gods are faultless, for they live according to their own
nature, spontaneously and without constraint; it is their godly
way. But if one looks at it from a higher point of view, if one has
a higher vision, a vision of the whole, they have fewer qualities
than man. In this film, it was proved that through their capacity
for love and self-giving, men can have as much power as the
gods, and even more – when they are not egoists, when they
can overcome their egoism.
Certainly man is nearer the Supreme than the gods.

8 All India Magazine, Nov. 2019