Psychic sorrow
Prayers and Meditations
July 12, 1918
(Mother:) “The Divine’s state of compassion is translated in the psychic consciousness by a sorrow that is not egoistic, a sorrow that is the expression of the identification through sympathy with universal sorrow. In the Prayers and Meditations I have said this (in one of the later ones), I have described at length an experience in which way I say, “I wept... the sweetest tears of my life”[1], because it was not over myself that I wept, you understand. Well, that is it.”[2]
(Sri Aurobindo:) “The psychic does not suffer like the vital or body, it has not pain or anguish or despair; but it has a psychic sorrow which is different from these things. It has a kind of quiet sweet sadness of yearning which it feels when things go against the Divine, when the obscurity and obstacles are too heavy, when the mind, vital and physical follow after other things, when evil and falsehood and darkness seem to be too strong for the Light. It does not despair, but feels that these things ought not to be and the psychic yearning for it to be otherwise becomes so intense that it is felt as if something akin to sadness.”[3]
- ↑ Prayers and Meditations, p.
- ↑ Questions and Answers 1954, p.144
- ↑ Letters on Yoga – I, p.108
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