Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 16860

1935

No sooner did I get up from sleep than I found tamas pressing heavily on me, as if inviting me. I accepted the challenge. Half an hour’s battle brought me the victory.

That is very good and rapid work.

If the calm and silence are perfectly established in the physical then if inertia comes – it is itself something quiet and unaggressive, not bringing disturbance. But to get rid of inertia altogether a strong dynamic calm is needed.