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Psychic Tears -- Psychic Emotions · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Emotional responses appear in the external being and for the
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  most part they stem from the vital being and its various
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  moods. There is, however, another
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  potential source of what appear on the surface being as
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  emotions, and that is something that stirs deep in the being in
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  the psychic heart. Instances of deep devotion,
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  feelings of consecration, intense sense of self giving
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  stemming from the soul's heart can bring forward responses in
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  the external being that are reflections of the psychic
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  development taking place, sometimes mostly unseen and
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  unrecognized in the being. There are also instances of
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  longing that devotional literature, poetry, and
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  spiritual texts express in songs and plaintive cries for the
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  beloved to appear. The stories surrounding Sri
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  Krishna and the Gopis show the psychic being coming to the fore
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  and overcoming all ordinary emotions.
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  A disciple asks, Is an emotion always a vital movement?
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  The Mother responds quote. It depends on the emotion, and
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  it also depends on what you call an emotion.
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  For example, there is a state where if you find yourself in
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  the presence of a very precise, very clear psychic movement, a
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  distinctly psychic movement, this happens quite often.
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  The emotion is so powerful that tears come to your eyes.
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  You are not sad, you are not happy, neither one nor the
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  other. It doesn't correspond to any
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  particular feeling, but it is an intensity of emotion which comes
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  from something that is clearly, precisely psychic.
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  It may be in yourself, but it is even more often in someone else.
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  When you are in contact with an act, a movement, a manifestation
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  which belongs to the psychic, then all of a sudden the eyes
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  are filled with tears. If you call that an emotion,
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  obviously it is an emotion, but usually it comes from one thing.
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  The physical being has a not very conscious but very intense
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  longing for a contact with the psychic life.
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  It feels poor, destitute, isolated and abandoned when it
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  is not in contact with the psychic being.
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  Not one physical being in a million is aware of this, But
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  this kind of impression of being lost, left hanging without
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  protection, without support, of lacking something and not
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  knowing what it is, something you don't understand but which
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  you lack, and emptiness somewhere, well, this comes more
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  often than one thinks. People have no idea what it is.
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  But then when for some reason or other, this consciousness
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  suddenly comes into contact with a clearly psychic phenomenon,
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  with psychic forces, psychic vibrations, the feeling is so
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  strong, so strong that certainly most often the body can hardly
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  hold it. It is like a joy that is too
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  great, that overflows on all sides, that you can't contain,
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  can't hold in yourself. It is like that.
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  There is a suddenly a sort of revelation, not very conscious,
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  not clearly expressed. The revelation of this is it,
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  This is what I must have. And it is so powerful, so
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  powerful that it gives you an emotion which is made-up of so
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  many things that you can hardly say what it is.
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  These are emotions that are not vital.
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  End Quote. Reference Srioro Bindu and the
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  Mother, the psychic being soul, its nature, mission and
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  evolution. Section 1.
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  Meaning and Nature of the Psychic Being, pages 38 to 39.