Spiritual Realisation Begins With Psychic Discipline

0:00 In The Life Divine, Sri Robindo describes the triple transformation that develops the human existence to a new status through conscious evolutionary development. The first transformation is what he calls the psychic transformation. The psychic transformation is the awakening to the soul, presence within, and organizing the aspiration, consecration, life, focus, and direction around the promptings of the soul. People ask how to go about doing this when we recognize that the human instrument is a receiving and transmitting instrument.

0:41 We can utilize this information by consciously turning our attention to our psychic being, systematically moving our focus inward, and opening ourselves to the influence that we begin to experience as we undertake this practice, the Mother writes. Quote. All this can be realized by means of a fourfold discipline, the general outline of which is given here. The four aspects of the discipline do not exclude each other and can be followed at the same time. Indeed, this is preferable. The starting point is what can be called the psychic discipline. We give the name psychic to the psychological center of our being, the seat within us of the highest truth of our existence, that which can know this truth and set it in movement. It is therefore of capital importance to become conscious of its presence in us, to concentrate on this presence until it becomes a living fact for us and we can identify ourselves with it.

1:54 In various times and places, many methods have been prescribed for attaining this perception and ultimately achieving this identification. Some methods are psychological, some religious, some even mechanical. In reality, everyone has to find the one which suits him best, and if one has an ardent and steadfast aspiration, a persistent and dynamic will one is sure to meet in one way or another. Outwardly, through reading and study, inwardly through concentration, meditation, revelation and experience. The help 1 needs to reach the goal, one thing is absolutely indispensable, the will to discover and to realize. This discovery and realization should be the primary preoccupation of our being, the Pearl of great price, which we must acquire at any cost.

2:55 Whatever you do, whatever your occupations and activities, the will to find the truth of your being and to unite with it must be always living and present behind all that you do, all that you feel, all that you think. End Quote Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, The psychic being soul, its nature, mission and evolution. Section 2. Role, function and Action of the Psychic. Pages 66 to 67.