Patel, Govindbhai

My Pilgrimage to the Spirit

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Sri Aurobindo — Patel, Govindbhai

March 3, 1932

March 3, 1932

While taking food I experience as if its soul or “that something within” shoots out of its heart and rises... unites and merges in the heart of each atom of air — as if a spark uniting with another spark.... Everywhere there streams out the joy of union.

Fine elements of food get analysed... rise; each one merges in the same kind of element of the body... and there streams out the joy of inter-union....

Inner and outer union makes one complete flame of a harmonious union and rises towards the Supreme.... Ah! the living air and the lifeless stones also unveil their hearts... bare their souls.... Sparks vibrant with Light and Life come out of the lifeless stones and join... revel... enlarge this sweetest tune to its infinite vastness...

It is one of the thousand experiences one gets when the Cosmic Consciousness is opening.