Her writings and experiences of the cellular transformation are too profound to be turned into a course or taught by a teacher for a fee. Sri Aurobindo has said clearly that this Yoga can be done only if one can open to the Mother’s influence or his own. No other intermediary is needed. And for this opening what is needed most is faith, sincerity, aspiration that keeps growing as we grow.
There are many things required to be realised even before we talk about the cellular yoga such as the psychic realisation, opening to the spiritual planes, realisation of the Divine Presence within and in all. To start enrolling for a stated course in cellular transformation to start with is to put the cart before the horse.
Of course any practice done with faith makes one feel good and sometimes peaceful. In a person who is ready it may even become an excuse for some kind of an inner opening to the Divine. But there is a world of difference between this and the yoga of transformation. Here are few revealing words of Sri Aurobindo.
‘One may practise Yoga and get illuminations in the mind and the reason; one may conquer power and luxuriate in all kinds of experiences in the vital; one may establish even surprising physical siddhis; but if the true soul-power behind does not manifest, if the psychic nature does not come into the front, nothing genuine has been done. In this Yoga, the psychic being is that which opens the rest of the nature to the true supramental light and finally to the supreme Ananda. Mind can open by itself to its own higher reaches; it can still itself and widen into the Impersonal; it may too spiritualise itself in some kind of static liberation or Nirvana; but the supramental cannot find a sufficient base in spiritualised mind alone. If the inmost soul is awakened, if there is a new birth out of the mere mental, vital and physical into the psychic consciousness, then this Yoga can be done; otherwise (by the sole power of the mind or any other part) it is impossible. If there is a refusal of the psychic new birth, a refusal to become the child new born from the Mother, owing to attachment to intellectual knowledge or mental ideas or to some vital desire, then there will be a failure in the sadhana…..
There is no method in this Yoga except to concentrate, preferably in the heart, and call the presence and power of the Mother to take up the being and by the workings of her force transform the consciousness; one can concentrate also in the head or between the eyebrows, but for many this is a too difficult opening. When the mind falls quiet and the concentration becomes strong and the aspiration intense, then there is a beginning of experience. The more the faith, the more rapid the result is likely to be. For the rest one must not depend on one’s own efforts only, but succeed in establishing a contact with the Divine and a receptivity to the Mother’s Power and Presence.’
Affectionately,
Alok Da
