Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Sri Aurobindo — Sahana Devi

August 20, 1936

It is indeed the best thing, to rest entirely for a time. You should not cook tomorrow (Friday). The first thing that is needed is to restore the physical strength and elasticity and therefore you should do nothing for a time that will tax it. It will then be easier for the physical consciousness to settle down into quietude and in the quietude for the inner being to recover its hold of the nature. It is the necessity to change the outer physical consciousness so that it may obey the inner and not be subject to the bondage of past nature that has become evident, but [this] can only be done when the inner poiseis back. Rest and an entire quietude are necessary for that purpose.