Chapter 20Peace · Peace and Inertia

The Peace is not of the nature of inertia, but the inertia (tamas) is a degradation of peace or rest as rajas is a degradation of divine Force. So when the physical is invited to peace and cannot receive it, it brings up inertia instead.

* Rest of the being from effort, disturbance etc.1 The Spirit is 1 The correspondent wrote to Sri Aurobindo, “You have said, ‘The inertia (tamas) is a degradation of peace or rest.’ What sort of rest do you mean?” — Ed.

eternally at rest even in the midst of action — peace gives this spiritual rest. Tamas is a degradation of it and leads to inaction.