The Mother’s “Review of the Day in the Light of the Psychic Being”
There is an activity that the Mother recommended that we do every evening, before we sleep – a review of our day, in the light of what She sometimes called “our highest ideal,” or if possible, in the Light of our Psychic Being. She recommended this to Her students in Paris, more than a century ago. She wrote of it again in Her articles on Education for the Bulletin , nearly ¾ of a century ago. And in the last year of Her life, She spoke of it again in Her conversations with Tara Jauhar. She wrote that if one performed this exercise daily for at least 6 months, one would change so thoroughly one could hardly recognize the “self” we were from just 6 months prior. I have, for just over half a century, considered this to be among the single most important practices of the Integral Yoga, yet I rarely see it discussed. The objection I have most often heard is that it involves too much “thinking.” Or, sometimes something along these lines is offered; “Well, that’s ok for begi...