Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume I - Part 1
Prakriti is a name given to the Force that works out everything in the person and in the world; it takes the form of mental, vital, psychic, physical and other forces, of all sorts of powers and qualities, movements, forms, thoughts, sensations, feelings, actions – all that is the result of Prakriti. It is as when a machine is moved by forces of electricity or steam or gas – so the world may be regarded as a huge and complicated machine worked by the forces of Prakriti. It is what is called in English “Nature”, and they say everything in the world is the work of Nature.