who are predominantly mental – who live in the false Idea and can even be vitally ascetic and appear to men as great Tapaswis. All the same there is a stern and violent vital as the effective instrument of their nature.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume IV - Part 4
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You can dissolve a thought formation which is made of subtle mental stuff – why not then a mental Asura? There are Asuras who are predominantly mental – who live in the false Idea and can even be vitally ascetic and appear to men as great Tapaswis. All the same there is a stern and violent vital as the effective instrument of their nature.