intoxicants. It gives them a sense of being strong and great and full of interesting things – when it is taken from them, they feel “like ordinary people” and ask for it back again.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
12. Experiences of the Inner and the Cosmic Consciousness
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In the universal vital especially there is a deceptive attraction and an exhilarating rush of power (not true quiet power but mere force) which those who yield to it cling to as a drunkard to his intoxicants. It gives them a sense of being strong and great and full of interesting things – when it is taken from them, they feel “like ordinary people” and ask for it back again.