WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

Unifying One’s Being

When I am able to offer You money or some object, it brings me great joy, and when some part of my being offers itself to You the joy I feel is greater still. But in spite of this experience my whole being is not offered to You. What stupidity! How can I change this?

We are made up of many different parts which have to be unified around the psychic being, if we are conscious of it or at least around the central aspiration. If this unification is not done, we carry this division within us.

To do this, each thought, each feeling, each sensation, each impulse, each reaction, as it manifests, must be presented in the consciousness to the central being or its aspiration. What is in accord is accepted; what is not in accord is refused, rejected or transformed.

It is a long endeavour which may take many years--but once it is done, the unification is achieved and the path becomes easy and swift.

10 May 1967

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Sweet Mother,

How can one unify one's being?

The first step is to find, deep within oneself, behind the desires and impulses, a luminous consciousness which is always present and manifests the physical being.

Ordinarily, one becomes aware of the presence of this consciousness only when one has to face some danger or an unexpected event or a great sorrow.

One has, then, to come into conscious contact with that and learn to do so at will. The rest will follow.

Generally it is in the heart, behind the solar plexus, that one finds this luminous presence.

Blessings.

20 September 1969

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Sweet Mother,

I would like to know the second step towards unifying one's being. You told me about the first step.

The work of unifying the being consists of:

(1) becoming aware of one's psychic being.

(2) putting before the psychic being, as one becomes aware of them, all one's movements, impulses, thoughts and acts of will, so that the psychic being may accept or reject each of these movements, impulses, thoughts or acts of will. Those that are accepted will be kept and carried out; those that are rejected will be driven out of the consciousness so that they may never come back again.

It is a long and meticulous work that may take years to be done properly.

Blessings.

8 December 1969

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