Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 35

Fragment ID: 8415

Passages from The Riddle of This World [4]

You write in The Riddle of This World: “Very readily they come to think that they are in the full cosmic consciousness when it is only some front or small part of it or some larger Mind, Life-Power or subtle physical ranges with which they have entered into dynamic connection” [p. 37]. What is meant here by “larger Mind”?

It means simply larger than the limited personal mind. It is a play of some combination of cosmic Mind-Forces but not the full cosmic Consciousness, not even the Cosmic Mind. It belongs usually to the Ignorance.

30 March 1934