Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume IV - Part 2

Fragment ID: 14375

It is not a physical retirement that is needed, but an inner detachment from the mental formations and vital desires. To find the real self above and within and live in that, not in the mind’s conceptions or the vital’s reactions. These must be observed and looked at not as one’s own but as movements of a surface ignorant nature.