Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume IV - Part 1

Fragment ID: 13584

Ordinary human minds, Europeans especially, are accustomed to regard thought as indispensable and as the highest thing – so they are alarmed at silence. X when he was here asked for Yoga. I told him how to make his mind silent and it became silent. He immediately got frightened and said, “I am becoming a fool, I can’t think”,– so I took what I had given away from him. That is how the average mind regards silence.