Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume IV - Part 2
Yes, dryness comes usually when the vital – here certainly the vital physical – dislikes a movement or condition or the refusal of its desires and starts non-cooperation. But sometimes it is a condition that has to be crossed through, e.g. the neutral or dry quietude which sometimes comes when the ordinary movements have been thrown out but nothing positive has yet come to take their place (e.g. peace, joy, a higher knowledge or force and action).