Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 4

Fragment ID: 13276

It is not a matter of any particular act or feeling, but a sort of excited vibration with which the vital and physical consciousness meets the vital disturbance – it is evident in the tone and language of what you write when there is the stress of vital suggestion – but it used also to rise when you got the experiences in an excited vibration and bubbling of joy which would easily lapse into some rajasic movement or be replaced by the opposite excitement of suffering and disturbance. Quiet, quiet and more quiet, calm strength, calm gladness are what are needed in mind and nerves and body as a basis for the siddhi – precisely because the Force, the Light, the Ananda that come down are extremely intense and need a great stillness in the being to bear and support them.