Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
13. Opposition of the Hostile Forces
Fragment ID: 4008
It is those who are of a highly sattwic nature,
especially if strongly surrendered to the Mother, who escape the invasion or
attacks of the hostile Forces in the mind and vital. That does not mean
that they escape the difficulties of the lower human nature or of the sadhana,
but these are not complicated by the effective support given to them by the
hostiles. It is not that there is no point in them that might be pressed upon by
the hostiles but in actual fact they cannot get at these points because of the
build of the nature which is fortified against them owing to the large
proportion of prakāśa and sukha
(see Gita) which the sattwic brings with it. But otherwise there is an internal
clarity, a balance, a happy composition in the being reflecting sunlight easily,
less amenable to the touch of cloud and tempest, which gives no handle to the
hostile forces. The nature refuses to be violently agitated or disturbed or
upset. At most it is the body that the hostiles can attack and there too because
the nervous being is calm and, it is only through the most material that it can
be done.