Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3. 1936-37

Fragment ID: 18069

1936-37

I try to separate myself from the mental activity, but what happens is that, instead of the witness Purusha, the mental consciousness gets separated from the mental activity!

It is, I suppose, because you have not yet got the mental Purusha separate from the mental Prakriti – so when you pull the Purusha back, the Prakriti comes with him.