Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7246

Passivity of Mind [1]

If I don’t surrender more or less passively, all is spoilt, I cannot produce anything real. Yet the mind struggles and I feel depressed and heavy in the head.

Why should the mind struggle? In all these things the mind has to remain passive and only a witness consciousness behind watching what is passing. It can be seen afterwards if anything has to be altered, but the mind interfering can only hamper the inspiration or pervert it.

27 July 1936