Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

Fragment ID: 20696

Indirect attacks are not of this kind, a violent rush and covering by hostile forces – they are done through covert suggestions, half-truth, half-falsehood, attempts to represent the falsehood in the garb of the Divine Truth or to mix the lower consciousness cleverly with the higher. Their attempt is to mislead by guile rather than to conquer by force.