Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1. 1933-34

Fragment ID: 16228

1933-34

After death, what happens to the adhar – I mean mind, vital and subtle physical – when the psychic being returns to the psychic plane for rest?

It is dropped off – unless the being has become strongly individualised on the mental plane or both on the mental and vital. Then it keeps its mental and vital sheaths – otherwise they disintegrate and everything essential is drawn back into the psychic.