Emotions Awake to the First Contact with the Divine
The Light begins to work in the emotional consciousness.
Emotion is an excellent and indispensable thing in human nature, in spite of all its shortcomings and dangers… But our aim is to go beyond mental ideas into the light of the supramental Truth, which exists not by ideative thought but by direct vision and identity. In the same way our aim is to go beyond emotion to the height and depth and intensity of the Divine Love and there feel through the inner psychic heart an inexhaustible oneness with the Divine which the spasmodic leapings of the vital emotions cannot reach or experience.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II: Divine Love, Psychic Love and Human Love
Emotion is a good element in Yoga; but emotional desire becomes easily a cause of perturbation and an obstacle.
Turn your emotions towards the Divine, aspire for their purification; they will then become a help on the way and no longer a cause of suffering.
Not to kill emotion, but to turn it towards the Divine is the right way of the Yoga.
But it must become pure, founded upon spiritual peace and joy, capable of being transmuted into Ananda. Equality and calm in the mind and vital parts, an intense psychic emotion in the heart can perfectly go together.
Awake by your aspiration the psychic fire in the heart that burns steadily towards the Divine—that is the one way to liberate and fulfil the emotional nature.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II: Bhakti, Devotion, Worship
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