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The Psychic Being

 

The child is your psychic being. It is the difficulty of the outer nature that rises up and climbs down from the chest. It does not want to admit the inner truth and wants to cover it up.

 

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That place is the place of the psychic being in the middle of the spine. What you have described are all the signs of the psychic being.

 

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Yes, the centre of man’s consciousness is in the heart and there is the seat of the psychic being.

 

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That straight, illumined path is the real one. But it takes time to get to it. Once that path is reached, there will not be much difficulty and hindrance.

 

 

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If you take to the path of the psychic and, like a child, lie on the lap of the Mother, then this kind of sex-impulse and

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so on can do nothing even if they attack. Finally they will not be able to come.

 

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I have already given you answers to this sort of questions. Keep within your depths. Look at everything from within. Don’t look with your outer eyes. If you remain in the outer consciousness, then you may make many mistakes under the cloak of thought. The psychic being gradually becomes strong within. It is the psychic being that sees the truth and turns everything into its fullness.

 

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These experiences are good—this fire is the psychic fire—and the condition you have described in the psychic condition into which nothing impure can come.

 

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Truly seen. The road of the psychic lies above in the truth- consciousness. Centring round the psychic all the planes begin to turn to the Divine in one and the same way. That road leads upward. The little baby is your psychic being.

 

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That is what is wanted— the lotus in the heart should always remain open, the whole nature should remain under

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the control of the psychic being. Thus a new birth can take place.

 

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Yes, this is the true psychic attitude. One who can have always this state in all circumstances can go straight to one’s goal.

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