Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume III - Part 3
Fragment ID: 12868
Yes, what you see is right1. It is why the former Yogins preferred to remain in the wide consciousness aloof from the play of the energies – they regarded the latter as something belonging to the life of illusion which would fall away only by the rejection of the physical life through knowledge. It is when you oscillate from one consciousness to another that you seem to lose the higher one or feel as if it were lost. By keeping it within always, one is able to regard both sides and change the recalcitrant lower nature.
1 The correspondent said that when he lived in the wide consciousness above, he could remain undisturbed by the energies of the lower nature. But when he tried to change those energies, he became troubled and confused by their downward pull. – Ed.