SRI AUROBINDO'S LETTERS TO NAGIN DOSHI (TEXT)
Cannot the descent be used for lessening or destroying the ego and its desires?
That is its proper working, but if the ego is not rejected, then the wrong use may take place.
At the Feet of The Mother
Sri Aurobindo's Writings
SRI AUROBINDO'S LETTERS TO NAGIN DOSHI (TEXT)
Some suggestions say, “You remain on the higher station satisfied with its peace and silence and do practically nothing for the parts below.” Is it correct?
Not altogether, but the higher peace and silence has to come down fully and not merely remain above — so the other contents of the higher consciousness may have a chance of descending too and stabilising themselves.
SRI AUROBINDO'S LETTERS TO NAGIN DOSHI (TEXT)
Is it true that the dynamic descent has resulted badly in some sadhaks?
It seems to me that there are a fair number who have left because of that, like Bejoy, Nolinbehari etc. and others who fell in the same way, e.g. X. And yet that was not a full descent, but only a very little bit of a thing.
A Text in English
Man has created a system of civilisation which has become too big for his limited mental capacity and understanding and his still more limited spiritual and moral capacity to utilise and manage, a too dangerous servant of his blundering ego and its appetites.
SRI AUROBINDO'S LETTERS TO NAGIN DOSHI (TEXT)
You wrote that the planes between the Mind and Overmind came down long ago. But why do we not feel their presence here?
Why should there be a “presence here”, or in what sense? It is for each one to open to these levels in his own being when he is ready to do so.
SRI AUROBINDO'S LETTERS TO NAGIN DOSHI (TEXT)
In order to bring down the higher knowledge, has one not to give up all one’s mental desires and satisfactions?
Yes, the human mind’s activities very often come much in the way.
A Text in English
A new, a difficult and uncertain beginning might have to be made in the midst of the chaos and ruin after perhaps an extermination on a large scale, and a more successful creation could be predicted only if a way was found to develop a better humanity or perhaps a greater, a superhuman race.
SRI AUROBINDO'S LETTERS TO NAGIN DOSHI (TEXT)
Formerly you had to correct hardly anything I wrote! Why this difference between now and then?
It is because you have come down from the mental into the physical — therefore the physical mind comes across the knowledge.
