Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3. 1936-37

Fragment ID: 17922

1936-37

What is the inert shama?

Inert shama is shama still mixed with tamas – a quietude that has no force of action (tapas) in it, no positive principle of happy ease, no positive light of knowledge – but is still calm, repose, release from all disturbance.