Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 35

Fragment ID: 8594

Silence, Thought and Action [3]

You write: “When I got the emptiness, it lasted for years. Whatever else came, came in the emptiness....” In my case, I do not see anything coming in. It remains always the same, or grows. But of course it may be preparing the nature for a higher descent.

I had the sheer emptiness with nothing in it for many months together. It is not emptiness really – for there is no such thing as emptiness – but the pure experience of the Self. Your mind accustomed to all sorts of movements looks at it in a negative way, that is all.

22 September 1934