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Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17574

1935

You once used the phrase, “the essential power of the higher consciousness”. What is the meaning of “essential” here?

Do you not know what “essential” means? There is a difference between the essence of a thing which is always the same and its formations and developments which vary. There is, for instance, the essence of gold and there are the many forms which gold can take.