Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume II - Part 3
Fragment ID: 11882
It is quite impossible to say to what they [the seers of the Upanishads] were referring in those days1. We have no longer a clue to their symbolism. But it is meant that the lower worlds are in the higher worlds even as the higher worlds are in the lower worlds – they penetrate each other. E.g. in our system there is a vital mental, several layers of the vital itself, a physical vital and so on in each realm. Everything contains everything else, as it were.
1 The correspondent asked for an explanation of certain terms in a passage (3.6.1) from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. – Ed.