Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
5. On Three Works of the Mother
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Sri Aurobindo — Unknown addressee
June 9, 1936
You say that after the great war there was “the descent of the vital world into the human”. But did not the vital world already descend on earth – in Matter – even before human beings came? What other vital world remained yet to descend into the human? And how is it that it decided to come down just at present – to prevent the higher Light from coming down or finding room in the human world?
When there is a pressure on the vital world due to the preparing Descent from above, that world usually precipitates something of itself into the human. The vital world is very large and far exceeds the human in extent. But usually it dominates by influence not by descent. Of course the effort of this part of the vital world is always to maintain humanity under its sway and prevent the higher Light.
9 June 1936
Current publication:
[Largest or earliest found passage: ] Sri Aurobindo. The Mother with the Letters on the Mother // The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Set of 37 Volumes (CWSA).- Volume 32. (≈ 25 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2012.- 662 p.
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