Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

Fragment ID: 20627

It refers to a certain stage when the consciousness is sometimes in activity and when not in activity is withdrawn in itself. Afterwards comes a stage when the Sachchidananda condition is there in work also. There is a still further stage when both are, as it were, one, but that is the Supramental. The two states are the Silent Brahman and the Active Brahman and they can alternate (1st stage), coexist (2nd stage), fuse (3rd stage)....

Certainly it (highest realisation, Sachchidananda) is realisable in works. Good Lord! How could the integral Yoga exist, if it were not?....