Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume IV - Part 2

Fragment ID: 13799

This quietude is not tamas at all – it is a quiescence of the ordinary rajasic movements of the nature (desire, grief, attachment and other reactions), which is very necessary in order that peace may come. It is what we may call the quiet vital – and it is in the quiet mind and the quiet vital that the true spiritual consciousness can most easily come.