Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

05. The Triple Transformation: Psychic – Spiritual – Supramental

Fragment ID: 2741

It [death] has no separate existence by itself, it is only a result of the principle of decay in the body and that principle is there already – it is part of the physical nature. At the same time it is not inevitable; if one could have the necessary consciousness and force, decay and death is not inevitable. But to bring that consciousness and force into the whole of the material nature is the most difficult thing of all – at any rate, in such a way as to annul the decay principle. It came because it is there in the subconscient and in Matter into which you are trying to bring down the intuition and overmind,– it wanted to get into the subjective centre so as to combat the higher power in the mind as well as in the body.