Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 4

Fragment ID: 13411

The wideness is that of the higher consciousness, golden being the colour of the light of Truth, and the Cow is the symbol of the Light of the higher consciousness descending, turning all into the Truth light.

The state of wideness and of quietude unaffected by anything that happens is the natural result of the descent which you saw in this figure. The impartial condition towards work or not work is also a result of this descent. Usually it is the vital that pushes to work and without this vital push one can do very little. When the higher consciousness descends into the mind and vital, this push becomes silent, but the faculty of work remains,– afterwards when the new consciousness is settled it takes up the work and carries it on with another force which replaces the push of the vital and is much greater.