Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 1

Fragment ID: 12022

A mental or vital sense of oneness has not the same essentiality or the same effect as a spiritual realisation of oneness – just as the mental perception of the Divine is not the same thing as the spiritual realisation. The consciousness of one plane is different from the consciousness of another. Spiritual and psychic love are different from mental, vital or physical love – so with everything else. So too with the perception of oneness and its effects. That is why the different planes have their importance; otherwise their existence would have no meaning.