Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Forth Series

Fragment ID: 21118

The former Yogins preferred to remain in the wide consciousness aloof from the play of the energies – they regarded the latter as something belonging to the life of illusion which would fall away only by the rejection of the physical life through knowledge. It is when you oscillate from one consciousness to another that you seem to lose the higher one or feel as if it were lost.