Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 4

Fragment ID: 13332

The last experience carries its own meaning. The first is a dream-experience in which the figures of the dream are probably symbols,– unless the Tibetan priest is an impression from a past life. The experience itself is that of concentration in a flame of aspiration with the result of an ascension into the higher planes of consciousness where the separative self disappears into the universal. The second is an experience of the descent of the higher consciousness through the spinal cord from the mental to the vital centres with the result of a momentary experience of that higher consciousness in its wide universality. The experience once had repeated itself but always with the same momentariness. It is the permanence of this experience that is in this Yoga the foundation of the spiritual consciousness and the spiritual transformation – as distinguished from the psychic which proceeds from the inner heart.