Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Yoga

5. Planes and Parts of the Being

Fragment ID: 527

Patala is evidently here a name for the subconscient – the beings there have “no heads”, that is to say, there is there no mental consciousness; men have all of them such a subconscient plane in their own being and from there rise all sorts of irrational and ignorant (headless) instincts, impulsions, memories, etc., which have an effect upon their acts and feelings without their detecting the real source. At night many incoherent dreams come from this world or plane. The world above is the superconscient plane of being – above the human consciousness – there are many worlds of that kind; these are divine worlds.

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

2. 12483.
Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga. III // CWSA.- Volume 30. (≈ 22-24 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2014.- 508 p.

3. 22828.
Sri Aurobindo. More Lights on Yoga [: Extracts from letters].– First Edition.– Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1948.– 141p.