Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1. 1934

Letter ID: 1216

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

October 30, 1934

I have started concentrating in the heart now. Last Sunday while I was meditating I had the vision of Sri Aurobindo’s face floating before me for about an hour or so, accompanied by a deep joy. I was fully conscious, but the body became as if dead, all movements stopped and what a rapture it gave me.

That was very good!

...Has anything opened up in me, really? Or is it only a momentary phase of a descent like Peace or Ananda? But I feel as if you have given me a lift forward – the fulfilling of your promise – I am coming. Am I right?

It looks like it. At any rate there is evidently an opening in the heart-centre or you would not have had the change or the vision with the stilling of the physical consciousness in the body.