Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1. 1933-34

Fragment ID: 16229

1933-34

Why has the psychic being to pass through the other worlds before reaching its own birth?

Because they are there in between and because so long as the vital and mental formations are there, you cannot go elsewhere than the mental and vital worlds.

It does not necessarily take the same substance as before. If it did, there would be no difference between the past life and the new one.