heavens. If Powers of disharmony got in, they would cease to be heavens.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Fragment ID: 20345
They wouldn’t be heavens if they were not immune1 – a heaven with fear in it would be no heaven. The Life-Heavens have an influence on earth and so have the Life-Hells, but it does not follow that they influence each other in their own domain. Overmind can influence earth, so can the hostile Powers, but it does not follow that hostile Powers can penetrate the Overmind – they can’t: they can only spoil what it sends to the earth. Each power of the Divine (life like mind and matter is a power of the Divine) has its own harmony inherent in the purity of its own principle – it is only if it is disturbed or perverted that it produces disorder. That is an-other reason why the evolution could have been a progressing harmony, not a series of discords through which harmony of a precarious and wounded kind has to be struggled for at each step; for the Divine Principle is there within. Each plane therefore has its heavens; there are the subtle physical heavens, the vital heavens, the mental heavens. If Powers of disharmony got in, they would cease to be heavens.
1937
1 The question apropos of the canto called “The Paradise of the Life-Gods”, pp. 233-37, ran: “Is the plane of the Life-Heavens perfectly immune? Is there no attack at times from the Life-Hells, no visitor from them thrusting in? The Life-Heavens do have an influence on earth, don’t they? And as the Life-Hells too have, don’t they ever clash in the subtle worlds?... And what exactly is the basis of the vital harmony? On the Overhead planes there is the consciousness of the One everywhere, but that can’t happen here.”