Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

SABCL 26

Fragment ID: 7630

Do you think that Buddha or Confucius or myself were born with a prevision that they or I would take to the spiritual life? So long as one is in the ordinary consciousness, one lives the ordinary life. When the awakening and the new consciousness come, one leaves it – nothing puzzling in that.

27-4-1936