Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 4

Fragment ID: 13326

The infinite calm you felt coming down was the calm of the Divine Consciousness – the higher or spiritual consciousness above the head, which descends as the higher parts of the being open to it. The experience of faith, love or aspiration come from the psychic being. It is when the psychic being is in front and governs all the nature and the Higher Consciousness descends through an open mind, vital and physical that the transformation of the nature begins to take place. The opposite experience of dryness, despair etc. comes from the resistance of the ordinary lower nature (lower vital, physical consciousness, especially). This resistance is to be got rid of – and one condition of that is never to indulge the desires of the lower vital and the body. You must turn them on the contrary wholly to the Divine.