Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 3

Fragment ID: 12792

The experience you have of a division in the being with the inner void and indifferent, udāsīna,– not sorrowful, but neutral and indifferent,– is an experience which many pass through and is highly valued by the Sannyasis. For us it is a passage only to something larger and more positive. In it the old small human feelings fall away and a sort of calm neutral void is made for a higher nature to manifest. It must be fulfilled and replaced by a sense of large silence and freedom into which the Mother’s consciousness can flow from above.