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Psychic Love -- a Flame of White Light · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  It is a quite common circumstance.
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  The heart centre appears to have a very close connection with the
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  physical vital centres governing the forces of sexual energy in
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  particular. Thus, when there is an emotional
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  attachment there is frequently a physical bonding that occurs.
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  When the psychic emotions manifest, they often wind up
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  trapped in this pre-existing groove of human behaviour.
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  The incidence of religious and spiritual leaders who inspire
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  people with a strong opening of a higher form of love and then
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  utilizing that for their own sexual satisfaction is something
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  that spiritual aspirants everywhere have seen or
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  experienced. With this issue in mind as one
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  of the concerns, certain spiritual paths have taken a
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  direction of exclusive love and devotion to the object of their
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  worship, directing all of their aspiration, self giving,
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  consecration, love and devotion upward and avoiding a direct
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  touch with the external vital nature.
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  This is a protective response to an habitual reaction, but it
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  does not then act as a transformative force for human
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  interactions. It is just this type of
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  separation that makes it seem that psychic love is cold,
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  distant, and unaffected by human concerns.
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  This is clearly a misconception when we recognize the ecstatic
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  expressions by devotees who immerse themselves in love of
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  the divine in whatever form they are attracted to.
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  The love of the gopis for Krushna, or the profound depths
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  of devotion that we find in various religious orders, as
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  well as the moving poetry and writings of dedicated seekers,
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  makes it clear that psychic love is a powerful and warm
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  expression. The task before seekers, as Sri
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  Orvindo mentions, is to find a way to translate this pure
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  uplifting an intense psychic form of love into transformation
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  of the external being and its relation with others without
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  falling into the long standing habit of distorting it through
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  self seeking or self satisfaction of various
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  physical, vital or mental preferences or desires,
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  Triorbindo notes quote. It is also a mistake to think
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  that the vital alone has warmth and the psychic is something
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  frigid without any flame in it. A clear limpid goodwill is a
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  very good and desirable thing, but that is not what is meant by
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  psychic love. Love is love, and not merely
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  goodwill. Psychic love can have a warmth
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  and a flame as intense and more intense than the vital, Only it
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  is a pure Friar, not dependent on the satisfaction of ego
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  desire, or on the eating up of the fuel it embraces.
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  It is a white flame, not a red one, but white heat is not
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  inferior to the red variety in its ardour.
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  It is true that the psychic love does not usually get its full
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  play in human relations and human nature.
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  It finds the fullness of its fire and ecstasy more easily
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  when it is lifted towards the divine.
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  In the human relation the psychic love gets mixed up with
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  other elements which seek at once to use it and over shadow
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  it. It gets an outlet for its own
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  full intensities only at rare moments, otherwise it comes in
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  only as an element. But Even so, it contributes all
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  the higher things in a love fundamentally vital.
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  All the finer sweetnesses, tenderness, fidelity, self
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  giving, self sacrifice, reachings of soul to soul,
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  idealizing sublimations that lift up human love beyond
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  itself, come from the psychic. If it could dominate and govern
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  and transmute the other elements, mental, vital,
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  physical of human love, then love could be on the earth, some
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  reflection or preparation of the real thing, an integral union of
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  the soul and its instruments in a dual life.
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  But even some imperfect appearance of that is rare.
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  End Quote. Reference Sviro Bindu and the
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  Mother, The Psychic being soul, its nature, Mission and
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  evolution Section 1 Meaning and Nature of the Psychic Being,
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  pages 41 to 42.