Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 3
Today I had a lot of work – proofs, etc. Tried to remember and offer it all. From 5 p.m. I again did the concentration [6.30 p.m.] etc. till now and am now on my way to meditation. The lightness, calm, etc. persist, I’m glad to say and at many slight things I am confronted by two attitudes 
of which then to take up the right attitude has become easy. For instance, we cooked a little khichari [porridge made with rice and pulses] today and after hours of work I sat down to eat with a real Dilipian verve and gusto. But I kept saying to myself: “Mustn’t eat too much: it brings lethargy and then I can’t do the concentration, etc.” And I succeeded and as a result didn’t feel heavy at all and did all the concentration, etc. In many other slight things too – ditto. I am trying rather easily to remember you and Mother and am succeeding which I couldn’t do so long – though I did try hard, you must concede – I tried and tried and failed and fretted and chafed and pouted and pestered, etc. etc. etc.! But now it has become much easier and the effort, too has become ever so much more interesting in consequence. I pray it may continue.
All that is very good – it means simply that the consciousness is now developing and opening more and more towards the Yogic change, so that things once difficult because of a mental and vital opposition, can now be done much more easily with a greatly lessened resistance. Maintain this progress and it might not take too long for the inner doors to open – for these are signs of the influence of the inner being growing rapidly on the outer and preparing it naturally for its rule.