The Mystic Fire Manifesting in the Different Parts of the Being

0:00 In Hymns to the Mystic Fire, Sri Aurobindo provides translations of the hymns to Agni, crafted by the Rishis of the Rigveda. The Rishis focus their attention on the flame of aspiration deep within, in the psychic centre of the being. They relate that through this flame the various powers of mind, life and body are actualized. Srioro Bindo follows up with some detail about the actual manifestation of the psychic fire as it begins to influence the mind, the life energy and the physical body. Srioro Bindo writes quote. What you describe is the psychic fire, Agni Pavaka, which burns in the deeper heart and from there is lighted in the mind, the vital and the physical body in the mind. Agni creates a light of intuitive perception and discrimination which sees at once what is the true vision or idea and the wrong vision or idea, the true feeling and the wrong feeling, the true movement and the wrong movement in the vital.

1:12 It is kindled as a fire of right emotion and a kind of intuitive feeling, a sort of tact which makes for the right impulse, the right action, the right sense of things and reactions to things in the body. It initiates a similar but still more automatic correct response to the things of the physical life, sensation, body experience. Usually it is the psychic light in the mind that is first lit of the three, but not always, for sometimes it is the psycho vital flame that takes precedence. In ordinary life also there is no doubt an action of the psychic.

1:55 Without it man would be only a thinking and planning animal, but its action there is very much veiled, needing always the mental or vital to express it, usually mixed and not dominant, not unerring. Therefore it does often the right thing in the wrong way, is moved by the right feeling, but errors as to the application, person, place, circumstance. The psychic, except in a few extraordinary natures, does not get its full chance in the outer consciousness. It needs some kind of yoga or sadhna to come by its own, and it is as it emerges more and more in front that it gets clearer of the mixture. That is to say, its presence becomes directly felt, not only behind and supporting but filling the frontal consciousness and no longer dependent or dominated by its instruments, mind, vital and body, but dominating them and molding them into luminosity and teaching them their true action. End Quote.

3:06 Reference. Fioro, Bindu and the Mother. The psychic being soul, its nature, mission and evolution. Section 2. Role, function and Action of the Psychic. Pages 57 to 58.