Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 1

Fragment ID: 12184

There is nothing out of the normal in what you describe – it happens in the course of the change of consciousness. What has to be remedied is that you feel the stillness, emptiness, but seem to have no joy of it or the satisfied peace of the self or sense of wideness or quiet release and freedom. Usually the cessation of the lower activities brings a sense of freedom, release, repose. The inner consciousness does not miss the mental jumpings or the vital swirl – it feels as if the silence were its native element.