Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 4

Fragment ID: 12961

The empty condition by itself is not called samadhi – it is when one goes inside, is conscious within but not conscious of outside things. What you describe yourself as doing involuntarily is this going inside and being conscious there. It was into the psychic centre inside that you were going, the place that you saw as a luminous maidān in a former experience. When one goes there it is just this peace and sweetness that one feels and also this sense of the Mother being there not far away or very near. So it is a very good development of the sadhana.