On the lower nature and tamas

Q: During the movement of transformation, I find the lower nature has a freer play in the emptiness than in the fullness.

In all, the lower nature plays easily. It can bring its mixture into the fullness — it is not only in emptiness that it arises.

Q: The inertia has begun to occupy more and more space in me. Is it due to any mistakes I have made unconsciously?

I don’t suppose there is any mistake. There are often such uprisings of tamas in the action and reaction of the forces without anything having been done to bring them.

– Sri Aurobindo