Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

Fragment ID: 20605

You are describing the action of the ordinary existence, not the Yoga. Yoga is a seeking (not a mental searching), it is not experimenting in contraries and contradictories. It is the mind that does that and .the mind that analyses. The soul does not search, analyse, experiment – it seeks, feels, experiences.

The only grain of truth in your statement is that the Yoga is very usually a series of ups and downs till you get to a certain height. But there is a quite different reason for that – not the vagaries of the soul. On the contrary, when the psychic being gets in front and becomes master, there comes in a fundamentally smooth action and although there are difficulties and undulations of movement, these are no longer of an abrupt or dramatic character.