Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume II - Part 2

Fragment ID: 11660

It is quite natural that at first there should be the condition of calm and peace only when you sit for concentration. What is important is that there should be this condition whenever you sit and the pressure for it always there. But at other times the result is at first only a certain mental quiet and freedom from thoughts. Afterwards when the condition of peace is quite settled in the inner being – for it is the inner into which you enter whenever you concentrate – then it begins to come out and control the outer, so that the calm and peace remain even when working, mixing with others, talking or other occupations. For then whatever the outer consciousness is doing, one feels the inner being calm within – indeed one feels the inner being as one’s real self while the outer is something superficial through which the inner acts on life.