Spiritual Message by the Mother/ Quotes by Sri Aurobindo

The soul of man soars as the Bird, the Hansa, past the shining firmaments of physical and mental consciousness, climbs as the traveller and fighter beyond earth of body and heaven of mind by the ascending path of the Truth to find this Godhead waiting for us, leaning down to us from the secrecy of the highest supreme…

Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda: The Doctrine of the Mystics

In the spiritual order of things, the higher we project our view and our aspiration, the greater the Truth that seeks to descend upon us, because it is already there within us and calls for its release from the covering that conceals it in manifested Nature.

Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine - I: The Sevenfold Chord of Being

The soul is, according to our psychology, connected with the small outer personality by certain centres of consciousness of which we become aware by Yoga… The inner centres are, for the most part, closed or asleep—to open them and make them awake and active is one aim of Yoga.

Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: The Psychic and Spiritual Realisations

The centres or Chakras are seven in number—

(1) The thousand-petalled lotus on the top of the head.

(2) In the middle of the forehead—the Ajna Chakra—(will, vision, dynamic thought).

(3) Throat centre—externalising mind.

(4) Heart-lotus—emotional centre. The psychic is behind it.

(5) Navel—higher vital (proper).

(6) Below navel—lower vital.

(7) Muladhara—physical.

All these centres are in the middle of the body; they are supposed to be attached to the spinal cord; but in fact all these things are in the subtle body, sūkṣma deha, though one has the feeling of their activities as if in the physical body when the consciousness is awake.

Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I: The System of the Chakras

Within us, there are two centres of the Purusha, the inner Soul through which he touches us to our awakening; there is the Purusha in the lotus of the heart which opens upward all our powers and the Purusha in the thousand-petalled lotus whence descend through the thought and will, opening the third eye in us, the lightnings of vision and the fire of the divine energy. The bliss existence may come to us through either one of these centres. When the lotus of the heart breaks open, we feel a divine joy, love and peace expanding in us like a flower of light which irradiates the whole being. When the other upper lotus opens, the whole mind becomes full of a divine light, joy and power, behind which is the Divine, the Lord of our being on his throne with our soul beside him or drawn inward into his rays; all the thought and will become then a luminosity, power and ecstasy…

Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga - II: The Ananda Brahman

The two most important things here are the opening of the heart centre and the opening of the mind centres to all that is behind and above them. For the heart opens to the psychic being and the mind centres open to the higher consciousness and the nexus between the psychic being and the higher consciousness is the principal means of the Siddhi. The first opening is effected by a concentration in the heart, a call to the Divine to manifest within us and through the psychic to take up and lead the whole nature. Aspiration, prayer, bhakti, love, surrender are the main supports of this part of the Sadhana—accompanied by a rejection of all that stands in the way of what we aspire for. The second opening is effected by a concentration of the consciousness in the head (afterwards, above it) and an aspiration and call and a sustained will for the descent of the divine Peace, Power, Light, Knowledge, Ananda into the being—the Peace first or the Peace and Force together.

Sri Aurobindo, The Mother with Letters on The Mother: Descent of the Mother's Force

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