Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume IV - Part 3
It [weakness of will] is a first result of coming down into the physical consciousness or of the physical consciousness coming up prominently – formerly you were much in the mind and vital. The physical consciousness is full of inertia – it wants not to move but to be moved by whatever forces and that is its habit. This inertia has to be cured by putting it into contact with the right forces from above. That is why I asked you to aspire for the higher wideness, purity and peace, so that that may occupy the physical and the true Force work instead of these invading ideas and impulses.