Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume I - Part 5

Fragment ID: 10746

If one has had a strong spiritual development, that makes it easier to retain the developed mental or vital after death. But it is not absolutely necessary that the person should have been a Bhakta or a Jnani. One like Shelley or like Plato for instance could be said to have a developed mental being centred round the psychic – of the vital the same can hardly be said. Napoleon had a strong vital but not one organised round the psychic being.