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The Mystic Fire Manifesting in the Different Parts of the Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In Hymns to the Mystic Fire, Sri Aurobindo provides translations
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  of the hymns to Agni, crafted by the Rishis of the Rigveda.
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  The Rishis focus their attention on the flame of aspiration deep
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  within, in the psychic centre of the being.
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  They relate that through this flame the various powers of
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  mind, life and body are actualized.
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  Srioro Bindo follows up with some detail about the actual
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  manifestation of the psychic fire as it begins to influence
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  the mind, the life energy and the physical body.
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  Srioro Bindo writes quote. What you describe is the psychic
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  fire, Agni Pavaka, which burns in the deeper heart and from
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  there is lighted in the mind, the vital and the physical body
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  in the mind. Agni creates a light of
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  intuitive perception and discrimination which sees at
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  once what is the true vision or idea and the wrong vision or
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  idea, the true feeling and the wrong feeling, the true movement
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  and the wrong movement in the vital.
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  It is kindled as a fire of right emotion and a kind of intuitive
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  feeling, a sort of tact which makes for the right impulse, the
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  right action, the right sense of things and reactions to things
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  in the body. It initiates a similar but still
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  more automatic correct response to the things of the physical
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  life, sensation, body experience.
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  Usually it is the psychic light in the mind that is first lit of
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  the three, but not always, for sometimes it is the psycho vital
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  flame that takes precedence. In ordinary life also there is
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  no doubt an action of the psychic.
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  Without it man would be only a thinking and planning animal,
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  but its action there is very much veiled, needing always the
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  mental or vital to express it, usually mixed and not dominant,
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  not unerring. Therefore it does often the
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  right thing in the wrong way, is moved by the right feeling, but
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  errors as to the application, person, place, circumstance.
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  The psychic, except in a few extraordinary natures, does not
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  get its full chance in the outer consciousness.
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  It needs some kind of yoga or sadhna to come by its own, and
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  it is as it emerges more and more in front that it gets
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  clearer of the mixture. That is to say, its presence
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  becomes directly felt, not only behind and supporting but
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  filling the frontal consciousness and no longer
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  dependent or dominated by its instruments, mind, vital and
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  body, but dominating them and molding them into luminosity and
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  teaching them their true action. End Quote.
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  Reference. Fioro, Bindu and the Mother.
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  The psychic being soul, its nature, mission and evolution.
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  Section 2. Role, function and Action of the
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  Psychic. Pages 57 to 58.