"This universality is impossible to achieve in tis completeness so long as we continue to feel ourselves, as we now feel, a consciousness lodged in an individual mind, life, and body. There has to be a certain elevation of the Purusha out of the physical and even out of mental into the vjnanamaya body. No longer can the brain nor its corresponding mental 'lotus' remain the centre of our thinking, nor longer the heart nor its corresponding 'lotus' the originating centre of our emotional and sensational being. The conscious centre of our being, our thought, our will and action, even the orginal force of our sensations and emotions rise out of body and mind and take a free station above them. No longer have we the sensation of living in the body, but are above it as its lord, possessor or Ishwara and at the same time encompass it with a wider consciousness than that of the imprisoned physical sense. Now we come to realise with a very living force of reality, normal and continous, what the sages meant when they spoke of the soul carrying the body or when they said that the soul is not in the body, but the body in the soul. It is from above the body and not from the brain that we shall ideate and will; the brain-action will become only a respondse and movement of the physical machinery to the shock of the thought-force and will-force from above. All will be originated from above; from above, all that coreesponds in gnosis to our persent mental activity takes place. Many, if not all, of these conditions of the gnostic change can and indeed have to be attained long before we reach the gonsis,--- but imperfectly at first as if by a reflection, --- in higher mind itself and more completely in what we may call an overmind consciousness between mentality and gnosis."
From: The Synthesis Of Yoga By Sri Aurobindo, 1973. pp470-471
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