ascent it is difficult to say where it begins – for here the beginning is Inconscience and Ignorance; but I suppose we may say that conscious falsehood begins with the beginnings of mind still involved in Life or appearing out of it.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
6. The Divine and the Hostile Powers
Fragment ID: 586
In the descent it [the falsehood] begins with Mind, in the evolutionary ascent it is difficult to say where it begins – for here the beginning is Inconscience and Ignorance; but I suppose we may say that conscious falsehood begins with the beginnings of mind still involved in Life or appearing out of it.