Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 4

Fragment ID: 13200

That you should be able to keep your consciousness uplifted is already something. As for the opening its coming and apparent closing is a normal experience – it needs several openings before the thing is settled by a permanent poise of the consciousness above and an increasing descent into the head and below. It is the pull from below that should get no indulgence – for that, though most do indulge in it, is a wrong crabby way of doing it. One must be safely stationed above before one can descend without a tumble. Not that the tumble if it comes precludes a going up again – it does not; but that is no reason for letting it happen.