Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Sri Aurobindo — Champaklal Purani

December 27, 1935

A few days back I was meditating in the evening. Everything became calm. Something fell down on my head upto the neck. I was surprised; what happened? Again I was meditating. I felt that from head to feet my body parted in two portions. On the right side I felt peace and heaviness. Why I felt two portions of my body? Please explain it.

The two sides of the body are supposed to represent two different sides of the being, the side of consciousness and knowledge and the side of force and action. The feeling you had at meditation may have been the sense of the removal of some veil of obscurity covering the mind – the head from the crown to the throat being the seat of the thinking mind.

Opening means only to be able to receive the Mother’s force. Whether one is open or not is shown by two things. If one is conscious of the force working in one, then one is open. But even if one is not conscious, yet if results of the working happen, then that also means that in the inner being some opening has been made. Aspiration, sincerity and the quietude of the mind are the three best conditions for opening.

Sri Aurobindo