the whole action and that is what one might call a reflection or delegated Power at the back of which is latent Supermind.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume I - Part 3
Fragment ID: 10322
No, one can’t say that [there is a direct supramental action at work in plants]. It is the vital force that works, but there is a sort of underlying Intuition in this Life-Force which is behind the whole action and that is what one might call a reflection or delegated Power at the back of which is latent Supermind.
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Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga. I // CWSA.- Volume 28. (≈ 22 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2012.- 590 p.
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