Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Yoga

5. Planes and Parts of the Being

Fragment ID: 494

See letter itself (letter ID: 973)

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

August 8, 1943

The nervous part of the being is a portion of the vital – it is the vital-physical, the life-force closely enmeshed in the reactions, desires, needs, sensations of the body. The vital proper is the life-force acting in its own nature, impulses, emotions, feelings, desires, ambitions, etc., having as their highest centre what we may call the outer heart of emotion, while there is an inner heart where are the higher or psychic feelings and sensibilities, the emotions or intuitive yearnings and impulses of the soul. The vital part of us is, of course, necessary to our completeness, but it is a true instrument only when its feelings and tendencies have been purified by the psychic touch and taken up and governed by the spiritual light and power.

Current publication:

 
Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga // SABCL.- Volume 22. (≈ 28 vol. of CWSA).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1971.- 502 p.

Other publications:

1. 5072.
[A letter: ] Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.– In 4 volumes.– Volume 4. 1938 – 1950 / edited by Shankar Bandopadhyay.– 1st ed.– My-sore: Mira Aditi, 2011.– 347 p.– ISBN 9788188893386; 8188893382

2. 10143.
Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga. I // CWSA.- Volume 28. (≈ 22 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2012.- 590 p.

3. 20818.
Sri Aurobindo. Letters of Sri Aurobindo: In 4 Series.- Second Series [On Yoga].- Bombay: Sri Aurobindo Circle, 1949.- 599 p.