Patel, Govindbhai

My Pilgrimage to the Spirit

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Sri Aurobindo — Patel, Govindbhai

March 7, 1932

March 7, 1932

As soon as I unite myself with you, the whole form gets extended in all directions — the head touches the sky; the feet go deep down in the ground and hands get extended into infinite distances in the ecstasy of the timeless, eternal, infinite consciousness.....

I feel as if the whole is aspiring through me and... there descends the sun radiating golden light and flows out from the whole body as orange-coloured fire....

No aspiration remains self-centred, nor is there any desire to keep the descending lights for personal use.... Everything flows out unhindered to the universe as Divine’s Grace.... Day and night I see myself in this huge form... radiating the only thing — fire! fire!

It is what it represents itself to be — an experience of the universal consciousness aspiring to the Divine Truth and beginning to receive its light. It is not your own consciousness, although you feel it in yourself, but a symbolic experience of the universal Vishwa-Purusha. These things one sees when one opens to the Cosmic Consciousness. Observed, felt and taken rightly, they help to liberate, universalize and impersonalize....

Observe and go forward.