Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume III - Part 3
Fragment ID: 12738
It is that the consciousness is detaching itself from the body1. Usually in men it is identified with the body and bound to it – in Yoga it detaches itself and becomes free. The body is no longer felt as oneself, but as something not oneself, something that one carries with oneself or else as an instrument which one uses for certain purposes.
1 The correspondent wrote that sometimes he felt raindrops or sunlight falling on his body as if they were touching something other than himself; at other times he felt very light, as if he had no body at all. – Ed.