Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Yoga

5. Planes and Parts of the Being

Fragment ID: 525

See letter itself (letter ID: 99)

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

June 1, 1930

You do not realise how much of the ordinary natural being lives in the subconscient physical. It is there that habitual movements, mental and vital, are stored and from there they come up into the waking mind. Driven out of the upper consciousness, it is in this cavern of the Panis that they take refuge. No longer allowed to emerge freely in the waking state, they come up in sleep as dreams. It is when they are cleared out of the subconscient, their very seeds killed by the enlightening of these hidden layers, that they cease for good. As your consciousness deepens inwardly and the higher light comes down into those inferior covered parts, the things that now recur in this way will disappear.

Current publication:

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

Other publications:

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[A letter: ] Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- In 4 Volumes.- Volume 1. 1929 – 1933 / edited by Sujata Nahar, Michel Danino, Shankar Bandopadhyay.– 1st ed.– Pune: Hari Krishna Mandir Trust; Mysore: Mira Aditi, 2003.– 384 p.

2. 15143.
Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga. IV // CWSA.- Volume 31. (≈ 22-24 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2014.- 820 p.

3. 22289.
Sri Aurobindo. Bases of Yoga [: Extracts from letters].– Seventh Edition, 1955.– Pondicherry.– Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1955.– 133p.