Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume I - Part 2

Fragment ID: 10170

What is called the mechanical mind is necessary for the maintenance (in the physical) of things gained – it is by conservation and repetition that Nature does that. The subconscient is the basis of conservation and the mechanical mind is the means of repetition. Only they have to be enlightened and change and conserve and repeat the new divine things and not the old undivine ones.