This third and final volume of letters contains my correspondence with Sri Aurobindo during the fourth and fifth years of sadhana, 1936 and 1937.
A going up and up higher, though a part of the total necessary movement, does not by itself have any effect on the outer being [...] the descent must first take place in the inner being. When the higher consciousness is settled in the inner being, then it can change the outer.
Prakriti and Nature are the same thing — the gunas are modes or processes of Nature (Prakriti).
That is its first condition when it manifests in the lower nature. It is then called the witness Purusha. If you want the rest to develop, you have to train your mind to be its instrument.
Hardly one ever feels that. It goes on under cover. The period of assimilation can either be a perfect quietude or else the assimilation can go on behind the veil, as it were.
The energy which dictates the action or prevents a wrong action is the Will.
The condition of meditation (Yogic concentration) is mental quietude, there can be no mental “work” during meditation.
The Divine is not bound to do that, He can give or not give; whether He gives or does not give makes no difference to the one who is surrendered to Him. Otherwise there is an arriere pensee in the surrender which is not then complete.
