Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume I - Part 5

Fragment ID: 10776

Ideas of this kind about Vivekananda and Ramakrishna are ideas of the mind to which the vital strongly attaches itself – the truth of the past lives cannot be discovered in that way. These mental ideas are not true. You must wait for direct knowledge in a liberated nature before you can know who in past lives you were.