Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

03. Basic Requisites of the Path

Fragment ID: 976

One must rely on the Divine and yet do some enabling sadhana – the Divine gives the fruit not by the measure of the sadhana but by the measure of the soul’s sincerity and its aspiration. (I mean by soul’s sincerity its yearning after the Divine and its aspiration towards the higher life.) Also, worrying does no good – “I shall be this, I shall be that, what shall I be?” Say: “I am ready to be not what I want but what the Divine wants me to be,” – all the rest should go on that base.