lower vital itself, they may sprout up again from below. Also the subconscient is the secret basis of the bodily consciousness. The subconscient must admit into itself the higher consciousness and the Truth light.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume IV - Part 3
Fragment ID: 15168
The work [going on in the subconscient] is of a general nature, not individual, but necessarily everyone here is to some extent affected by it1. If consciousness and light is not brought into the subconscient, then there can be no change. For it is in the subconscient that there are the seeds of all the old lower vital instincts and movements and however much they may be cleared in the lower vital itself, they may sprout up again from below. Also the subconscient is the secret basis of the bodily consciousness. The subconscient must admit into itself the higher consciousness and the Truth light.
1 This letter was written in November 1937. – Ed.