Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Fragment ID: 8368

Passages from The Synthesis of Yoga [4]

“Therefore the psychic life-energy presents itself to our experience as a sort of desire-mind, which we have to conquer if we mean to get back to the true self” [p. 350].

It means the life-energy which comes from within and is in consonance with the psychic being – it is the energy of the true vital being, but in the ordinary ignorant vital it is deformed into desire. You have to quiet and purify the vital and let the true vital emerge. Or you have to bring the psychic in front, and the psychic will purify and psychicise the vital and then you will have the true vital energy.

11 September 1933