Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7229

Mentalisation of Inspiration

You have spoken of the original inspiration becoming “mentalised”. Could you tell me how it gets mentalised?

This mentalisation is a subtle process which takes place unobserved. The inspiration, as soon as it strikes the mental layer (where it first becomes visible) is met by a less intense receptivity of the mind which passes the inspired substance through but substitutes its own expression, an expression stressed by the force of inspiration into a special felicity but not reproducing or transmitting the inspired beat itself.

6 April 1938