Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 1

Fragment ID: 12127

These oscillations [of consciousness] always come. The universal lower Nature tries to come back and resume its hold – the lower vital or the physical consciousness responds, not always because it wants or likes to do so but because the old habit of response is still so strong that it cannot help it.

The first necessity is to detach yourself, not to regard it as your own, to learn to feel it as something foreign and refuse to be touched or upset. Then it will become easier for the lower vital or physical itself to reject and refuse to admit it.