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Dear Alok da, I see some edits to the original photographs or symbols of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. These are usually done by some well-meaning devotees. Some recent examples are – instead of the lotus and water inside the square of Sri Aurobindo’s symbol, someone placed the Mother’s symbol in the square; I once saw Sri Aurobindo’s Dec. 1950 photo sleeping on the bed, taken chest-up, turned 90 degrees to make it as if He is standing with eyes closed. 🤔🖼️✨[…]

Sometimes, some changes have deep meanings, such as the Auroville or the Sri Aurobindo Society symbols. How do I cultivate the psychic discrimination to sense the difference, as I cannot figure it out mentally? Sometimes the edit is poor enough that a little deeper discrimination is enough, but it is not sufficiently developed yet.

Ideally, one should not shift or rotate the photograph. Some touch-up is understandable since no photo can ever capture the ‘real thing’. However, if we take the psychic attitude, then it is not the details of the photograph but the consciousness that the photograph represents with which the seeker enters into contact with. To the psychic being, anything, even the most trivial aspect, can become a means to enter into contact with the Truth, with the Presence within. Of course, the psychic discernment detects whatever deviates from or distorts the truth. It is automatic and does not depend upon any mental analysis. 

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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