Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Forth Series

Fragment ID: 21707

There is only one way if you cannot exert your will – it is to call the Force; even the call only with the mind or the mental word is better than being extremely passive and submitted to the attack,– for although it may not succeed instantaneously, the mental call even ends by bringing the Force and opening up the consciousness again. For everything depends upon that. In the externalised consciousness obscurity and suffering can always be there; the more the internalised consciousness reigns, the more these things are pushed back and out, and with the full internalised consciousness they cannot remain – if they come, it is as outside touches unable to lodge themselves in the being.