Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume IV - Part 1
X’s talk is certainly not very helpful to his sadhana and I think he knows it – but he has not made any real attempt to control his tongue as yet. Talk – of the usual kind – does very easily disperse or bring down the inner condition because it usually comes out of the lower vital and the physical mind only and expresses that part of the consciousness – it has a tendency to externalise the being. That is of course why so many Yogis take refuge in silence.