Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17323

1935

How is one to deal with such an obstinate inertia?

The first means is not to get upset when it comes or when it stays. The second is to detach yourself, not only yourself above but yourself below and not identify. The third is to reject everything that is raised by the inertia and not regard it as your own or accept it at all. If you can do these things then there will be something in you that remains perfectly quiet even in the greatest inertia. Through that quiet part you can bring down peace, force, even light and knowledge into the inertia itself.