Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 4

Fragment ID: 13408

That is good progress. As for the resisting part, there is for a long time a resistance from some layer of the physical – one layer opens, another beneath remains obscure. But if the pressure from above is continuous, the resistance gets exhausted at last.

The stillness of which you speak in the meditation is a very good sign. It comes usually in that pervading way when there has been sufficient purification to make it possible. On the other side, it is itself the beginning of the laying of the foundations of the higher spiritual consciousness.