Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 4

Fragment ID: 13042

All these things are signs, now often repeated, of the process that is going on. The heat is the result of the psychic fire burning away obstacles – the coolness and complete quietude come as a result. The tendency to sleep is really a tendency to go inside into the depths of the inner consciousness due to the pressure for the change.

The wideness of light you saw was the wideness of the true consciousness liberated from the narrow limits of the human mind, human vital, human body consciousness. It is true that the mind is narrow, not only yours, but all human minds even the most developed,– compared with the wideness of the true consciousness which has no limits. It is precisely this wideness which will come by the sadhana and which these processes are preparing. The rain of flowers means a plenty of the psychic qualities and movements and the white flower of mental victory indicates the step towards it which is now being led up to – the victory in the mind of the inner light over the outer ignorance.