Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

Fragment ID: 20614

There is something in you that has become aware of the higher consciousness and gone up there above the head where the ordinary consciousness and the higher planes meet. That has to be developed till the whole source of the consciousness is there and all the rest directed from there – with, at the same time, a liberation of the psychic so that it may support the action from above in the mind, the vital and in the physical parts.

It is the Atman, the spiritual being above the mind – the first experience of it is a silence and calm (which one perceives afterwards to be infinite and eternal), untouched by the movements of mind and life and body. The higher consciousness lives always in touch with the Self – the lower is separated from it by the activities of the Ignorance.