Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
09. Sadhana in the Ashram and Outside
Fragment ID: 1719
The inability to go [from the Ashram] can come from the psychic which refuses, when it comes to the point, to allow the other parts to budge, or it can come from the vital which has no longer any pull towards the ordinary life and knows that it will never be satisfied there. It is usually the higher parts of the vital that act like that. What still is capable of turning outwards is 


probably the physical vital in which the old tendencies have not been extinguished.