Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 4

Fragment ID: 13034

It [a flame in the heart as big as a man’s thumb] is the psychic fire kindled in the heart. The psychic being in the heart is described by the Upanishads as of the size of a thumb, aṅguṣṭha-mātraḥ puruṣo’ntarātmā – it may manifest first as this psychic flame.