Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1934 — 1935

Letter ID: 678

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

Undated

(...) As for facts each mind always arranges them in its own way. It is a well-known phenomenon which psychologists constantly emphasise that each mind arranges facts according to its own impressions, predilections, convenience and while this may be partly done with a conscious twist, conscious omissions and additions, it is quite or as often and more often done without any wilful intentions, and by a sort of subconscious selection in the mental hinterland. That is why no three witnesses of an incident can give the same account of it – unless of course they have talked it over together – each tells a different story.