Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1935
Fragment ID: 17174
1935
I am still not able to control my speech. The ordinary forces make me talk on unnecessary subjects. This tires me and I get depressed. Is it not a fall of consciousness? If this defect continues, I am afraid, I shall have to observe mauna1.
Mauna is seldom of much use. After it is over, the speech starts again as in the old times. It is in speech itself that the speech must change.
It does not matter if you talked. It seems to me that you are making too much of ordinary things and regarding them as falls from sadhana.
1 Enforced silence.