Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

Fragment ID: 20649

The silent mind is a result of Yoga; the ordinary – mind is never silent.... The thinkers and philosophers do not have the silent mind. It is the active mind they have; only, of course, they concentrate, so the common incoherent mentalising stops and the thoughts that rise or enter and shape themselves are coherently restricted to the subject or activity in hand. But that is quite a different matter from the whole mind falling silent.