Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume I - Part 1

Fragment ID: 9789

It is the Purusha and Prakriti sides of the nature – one leading to pure conscious existence, static, the other to pure conscious force, dynamic. The past darkness they have come out of is that of ignorance, the future darkness that is felt above is superconscience. But of course the superconscience is really luminous – only its light is not seen. The three forms of consciousness are the three sides of Nature represented by the three gunas – force of subconscious tamas, Inertia, which is the law of Matter, force of half-conscious desire, Kinesis, which is rajas, which is the law of Life, force of sattwic Prakasha, which is the law of Intelligence.