Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 3

Fragment ID: 12809

What she speaks of as losing the body consciousness is probably a tendency of the consciousness to go inside – into Samadhi of some kind. Samadhi means a state in which one is not awake and aware of outward things, but also one is not asleep, one is conscious inwardly with another than the waking consciousness. If this comes, it is not to be avoided, as Yogic realisation can take place in this condition as well as in the waking state.