Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh

11 September 1934

Enough of unprofitable questionings and doubtings of the mind: let it now have a free and silent room for a descent of the Supreme Truth. Let the sense-mind be no more enmeshed in the sense-objects and be satisfied with flickering and pale enjoyments but let each and every sense-organ get a perfect enjoyment in the Divine. Let the sense-mind depend for its myriad activities upon the Divine and in Him let it find the ultimate satisfaction. It will then see the Divine, hear the Divine, smell the Divine, touch the Divine and taste the Divine, in short, it will sense nothing else than the Divine. That will ensure its perfect functioning and real enjoyment.

The pragmatic mind rejoices in playing habitually in a narrow groove. Partial and dusky reflections of the Supreme Idea, random play of thoughts, ill-formed and yet constantly trying to assert themselves without having any real control over the objective world, blind adherence to its parochial ideations— these are the things that characterise the play of the pragmatic mind. Let it now be made a free, conscious and dynamic channel of the expression and formation of the Supreme Idea.

The ethical mind is too much enamoured of the rules, the canons, the laws and the regulations of its own creation and thus ignorantly fetters itself. Starting with the purpose of ultimately getting the Divine, it but loses Him, His Plenitude and His Freedom. The rules and canons give it more satisfaction than even the Divine. Bright beginning but sad end. May it be made an unobstructing and a luminous channel for the right activity of the Supreme Law, the Supreme Harmony and the Supreme Truth.

The aesthetic mind, while having an inherent seeking after the Supreme and Plenary Beauty of the Divine, rests satisfied with fragmentary mental representations of It. Not the whole of It but Its shadow-reflections does the aesthetic mind happen to get. Let its limited and sensuous enjoyment be replaced by the clear-seeing and rapturous enjoyment of the Supreme Beauty.

The emotive mind ignorantly revels in the derivative play of the Pure Emotion. Limping and feverish play of emotions, sometimes giving thrilling sensations, sometimes rendering the mind an arid desert—that is the nature of its enjoyment. Let it, my Lord, be a rapture-bound instrument for the limpid and boisterous play of the Supreme Emotion.

The vital mind in the same way slavishly indulges in the dualistic and diseased satisfactions of vital insistences. In the place of a strong, impetuous and cyclonic enjoyment of the Supreme Life-expression, it has to remain satisfied with sham enjoyments. Let it be made a strong, pure and luminous channel for the expression of the Supreme Life.

Purify, Mother, each and every part of the mind, make it a consecrated and transformed instrument of Thy expression in all Thy luminous amplitudes. Not an annihilation of the mind but a transmutation of it in the light of the Supreme Truth, not a quietist enjoyment at the expense of the mind but a Pleroma of Light, Beauty and Power, not a truncated realisation but an integral and a harmonious one,—these and nothing short of them that I pray for. Listen to this heart-felt prayer of mine and make the mind, released from its physical obsessions, a sublime and effective instrument for Thy Ineffable Play.