Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3. 1936-37

Fragment ID: 18590

1936-37

Now I find that I have stayed too long above and did not work enough for the inner development, not to speak of the outer.

It is a thing that can be done for a time so as to strengthen the capacity for remaining above – but if the lower consciousness is left to itself there can be no transformation. The higher position has to be used for bringing down the higher forces below.