Yes, but it ought at least to make them ineffective – not the emptiness perhaps, but the peace in it. As if it were saying “Who are you, you beggars? I don’t know or accept you.”Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1935
Fragment ID: 17410
1935
The emptiness in itself is a state of peace, silence and rest. It is as yet too passive and therefore not able to keep off the outer or lower forces.
Yes, but it ought at least to make them ineffective – not the emptiness perhaps, but the peace in it. As if it were saying “Who are you, you beggars? I don’t know or accept you.”