Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17568

1935

My mind does not remain vigilant all the time. Perhaps if is because it has not the vital’s assistance.

It is the mind’s business to be on guard, not the vital’s. If you mean that the vital is interested in other things and the mind follows, that may be so. But the business of the mind is to recall the vital, not to follow it.