Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17170

1935

Usually it is the outer being that is talking. But it is rarely reasonable and it speaks a lot and of useless things. So I want my inner being to take the charge of speech.

Yes. The speech must come from within and be controlled from within.

In talking one has the tendency to come down into a lower and more external consciousness because talking comes from the external mind. But it is impossible to avoid it altogether. What you must do is to learn to get back at once to the inner consciousness – this so long as you are not able to speak always from the inner being or at least with the inner being supporting the action.