Patel, Govindbhai

My Pilgrimage to the Spirit

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Sri Aurobindo — Patel, Govindbhai

February 20, 1932

February 20, 1932

Rising in the Consciousness of Sat-Chit-Ananda, I find myself as if standing above the universe.... The whole universe is under my view....

2. There appears a sun in the heart, radiating its light on the universe.... The things become more exact and tangible; and, as if turning into the physical facts — there begin to run away troops and troops of serpents and goats....

3. All sorts of forces rush up by the pressure and appear rushing out of the general atmosphere.... Such force carries with it the atmosphere of its source (of the individuals who feed or tame them).... The atmosphere which envelopes these forces is of unwillingness to depart with them and desires to keep them for some more time....

1. An image of the overmind action and cosmic consciousness.

2. The Light of the sun descending into the heart (the Sun of Knowledge) turns upon the physical and purifies it. Serpents indicate adverse energies, goats usually indicate sex-tendencies.

3. It is the forces of the lower nature compelled to appear by the rays of the sun of knowledge and seem moved to depart but something in the ego-nature still clings to them and delays the true purification. That always happens in everybody.