Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17742

1935

“ What acts on the Self depends on the realisation; it is sometimes Nature, sometimes the cosmic Divine, sometimes the Mother.” Is the Self, which is an aspect of the Divine, so much open to anything that even Nature (lower Prakriti) can act on it?

It is ‘in the Self not on it. Everything acts in the self – the whole play of Nature takes place in the Self, in the Divine. The Self contains the universe.