Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17715

1935

If it was the ‘oscillation’ which made a complete silence disappear, I can’t understand it. Formerly such a silence could stay on for days together. Moreover, at that time my progress was less and not as stable as now.

The rush of the experience at the beginning is often very powerful, so powerful that the resisting elements remain quiescent – afterwards they rise up. The experience has then to be brought down and settled in these parts also.