Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume I - Part 3

Fragment ID: 10381

It is absolutely idle to think of transforming the body when other things that are so much easier to do – though of course none is easy – are not done. The inner must change before the outermost can follow. So what is the use of such a concentration – unless one thinks that everything else is perfect, which would be a rather astonishing claim. What has to be done with the body at first is to make it open to the Force, so as to receive strength against illness and fatigue – when they come, there must be the power to react and throw them off and to keep a constant flow of force into the body. If that is done, the rest of the bodily change can wait for its proper time.