Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume I - Part 1

Fragment ID: 9798

It is more difficult for the Prakriti [to separate itself from outer action than for the Purusha] as its ordinary play is that of the surface being. It has to divide itself into two to separate from that. The Purusha on the contrary is in its nature silent and separate – so it has only to go back to its original nature.