Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1. 1933-34

Fragment ID: 16066

1933-34

I noticed my vital rising to my head – as if to aspire and go upward. What was it that really happened?

The vital can rise to the head in two ways – one to cloud the mind with the vital impulses, the other to aspire and join with the higher consciousness. If you noticed the aspiration, it was evidently the latter movement.