Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 16851

1935

I fail to understand what there is that prevents me from becoming dynamic and fighting out the interfering forces.

Inertia is the very character of the physical consciousness – left to itself, it is accustomed to be passive to forces and to be their instrument or give a mechanical response to them. In your external being there was always a certain tendency to inertia.