Patel, Govindbhai

My Pilgrimage to the Spirit

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Sri Aurobindo — Patel, Govindbhai

March 9, 1932

March 9, 1932

As soon as I rise in the higher consciousness, first, the heart begins to feel a pain of unbearable expansion. It gets expanded and there comes a descent of that wide consciousness — with a jerk as if the heart is bursting; — Light makes its way and shoots out in all directions and gets united with the hidden heart of everything — with the soul-ray of each object....

The Light descends up to the navel and infinite vastness is felt not only in the mind but up to the navel. And in that entire portion I feel as if there is no cover of limiting body, but there is infinite vastness....

It is the experience of cosmic wideness descending from centre to centre.