Patel, Govindbhai

My Pilgrimage to the Spirit

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Sri Aurobindo — Patel, Govindbhai

February 29, 1932

February 29, 1932

Is the faculty of formation different from creative power?

You make a formation in your mind or on the vital plane in yourself — it is a kind of creation, but subjective only; it effects only your mental or vital being. You can create by ideas, thought-forces, images — a whole world in yourself or for yourself; but it stops there.

Some have the power of making consciously formations that go out and effect the minds, actions, vital movements, external lives of others. These formations may be destructive as well as creative.

Finally, there is the power to make formations that become effective realities on the earth-consciousness here, in its mind, life, physical existence. That is what we usually mean by creation.