Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Forth Series

Fragment ID: 21999

Prakriti is the Force that acts. A Force may be in action or in quiescence, but when it acts it is as much a force as when it does not act. The gunas are an action of the Force, they are in the Force itself. The sea is there and the waves are there, but the waves are not the sea and when there are no waves and the sea is still, it does not stop being the sea.