Chapter 19Dealing with Hostile Attacks · Dissolution
Book 13. Part Four: Difficulties in the Practice of the Integral Yoga · Section Three: The Opposition of the Hostile Forces
You can dissolve a thought formation which is made of subtle mental stuff — why not then a mental Asura? There are Asuras 1 In his letter the correspondent mentioned “a dynamic will and aspiration”. — Ed.
who are predominantly mental — who live in the false Idea and can even be vitally ascetic and appear to men as great Tapaswis. All the same there is a stern and violent vital as the effective instrument of their nature.