Selections

There is a common idea that visions are a sign of high spirituality. Is this true?

Not necessarily. [...] Generally, those who see are misled because they give the meaning or interpretation they wish to give according to their desires, hopes and prepossessions.

"The Illumined Mind does not work primarily by thought, but by vision; thought is here only a subordinate movement expressive of sight. The human mind, which relies mainly on thought, conceives that to be the highest or the main process of knowledge, but in the spiritual order thought is a secondary and a not indispensable process."

"Everything not physical is seen by an inner vision. When the inner vision opens, there can come before it all that ever was or is now in the world, even it can open to things that will be hereafter — so there is nothing impossible in seeing thus the figures and the things of the past."

"Visions and voices are only a small part of that vast realm of occult experience. As for utility, for one who has intelligence and discrimination, visions etc. have many uses — but very little use for those who have no discrimination or understanding."

"There is, besides the outer physical sight which sees external objects, an inner sight in us which can see things yet unseen and unknown, things at a distance, things belonging to another place or time or other worlds.... It is the working of the Mother’s force which is opening it... Remember the Mother always, call on her and aspire to feel her presence and her power working in you ...." (Sri Aurobindo)

"The procedure to deal with dreams.... Become conscious of your dreams. Observe the relation between them and the happenings of your waking hours.... In sleep some action or other is always going on in your mental or vital or other plane; things happen there and they govern your waking consciousness."

"No attachments, no desires, no impulses, no preferences; perfect equanimity, unchanging peace, and absolute faith in the Divine protection: with that you are safe, without it you are in peril. And as long as you are not safe, take shelter under the mother’s wings."

Dreams are as natural as the activities of the day [...] Except in a few very rare instances, a dream is the awakening of something recorded in the subconscious. There are also symbolic and premonitory dreams, but very rarely do dreams consist of true memories of past lives [...] One dreams in the mental or vital consciousness but rarely does one dream in the psychic consciousness.

The First (1928) Edition of "The Mother" by Sri Aurobindo, signed by The Mother.