Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 3

Fragment ID: 12897

One cannot be high in the cosmic consciousness unless one has taken one’s station above the body in a cosmic wideness which envelops the whole being. What you did was to open to it to a certain extent and then, instead of plunging into it at once as some do, your sadhana took the turn of coming down into the physical to prepare it. That is not altogether an undesirable turn – for many suffer by not having taken it. X for instance got a very evident opening into the cosmic, but he lost his way in it altogether because neither his vital nor his physical were cleared of certain very serious imperfections.