Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 4

Fragment ID: 12981

It is good that you go back from this struggle towards the quiet foundation that helps the opening. All this struggling and confusion and harassing self-depreciation is the old wrong way of proceeding; it is mental and vital and cannot succeed; it is in the quiet mind that the opening must come. Then the psychic being, the soul in you, begins to come forward. The soul knows and sees the Truth; the mind and vital do not – until they are enlightened by the soul’s knowledge.