Patel, Govindbhai

My Pilgrimage to the Spirit

Letters

Fragment ID: 18884

(this fragment is largest or earliest found passage)

Sri Aurobindo — Patel, Govindbhai

December 10, 1931

December 10, 1931

If by trance, you mean going inside in meditation altogether, there is no harm in it. Only, it is not good to be always in that condition or too long a time in it during the day; for the hold on the external must be kept and, besides, the best part of the work to be done, just note, is the change of the physical consciousness and external nature.

If you mean by trance going out of the body, that should only be done under conditions which make it safe.