Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume IV - Part 3

Fragment ID: 14656

There are stories told of people living without sleep or food – living without sleep has happened, but it came by an abnormal condition in the person which cannot be brought at will. There is no instance of anyone living without food,– none that is to say which is beyond doubt – but that also may be possible – but here also it must depend on some abnormal condition which cannot be brought at will.