Psychic is a spark of the Divine

DISCIPLE: It is said that the psychic is a spark of the Divine.

SRI AUROBINDO: Yes.

DISCIPLE: Then it seems that the function of the psychic being is the same as that of Vedic Agni, who is the leader of the journey?

SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. Agni is the God of the Psychic and, among the other things it does, it leads the upward journey.

DISCIPLE: How does the psychic carry the personalities formed in this life into another life?

SRI AUROBINDO: After death, it gathers its elements and carries them onward to another birth. But it is not the same personality that is born. People easily misunderstand these things, specially when they are put in terms of the mind. The past personality is taken only as the basis but a new personality is put forward. If it was the same personality, then it would act exactly in the same manner and there would be no meaning in that.

EVENING TALKS WITH SRI AUROBINDO
RECORDED BY A B PURANI (page no 665-666)