Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1935
Fragment ID: 17427
1935
How did the tendency to inertia get into me and why did my nature accept it?
It was because of the nature, because the tendency to tamas is there, the outer being is not yet sufficiently transformed. When the inertia rises you have to keep your inner being separate from it and perfectly calm and not to acquiesce in any nervousness or accept any suggestions or allow yourself to lean towards any “active resistance” or dissatisfaction with what is written to you or done for you. If in addition you find it possible to use any of the active means suggested in past answers, it is well – but if not this at least what I have written above must be done. And always the aspiration firm and steady – not eager and excited – for the descent and the transformation of the whole nature must be preserved constant.
1 Sri Aurobindo wrote me numerous letters during 1933 to 1937, but he was not in the habit of signing them. He did so in approximately a dozen letters only, perhaps when he wanted to put a particular emphasis of power on the substance he expressed in a letter.