Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 4

Fragment ID: 13105

It is the Atman, the spiritual being above the mind – the first experience of it is a silence and calm (which one perceives afterwards to be infinite and eternal) untouched by the movements of mind and life and body. The higher consciousness lives always in touch with the Self – the lower is separated from it by the activities of the Ignorance.