Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

07. Sadhana through Love and Devotion

Fragment ID: 1493

That was exactly what X tried to do – to express the love in connection with this or that person. But universal love is not personal – it has to be held within as a condition of the consciousness which will have its effects according to the Divine Will or be used by that Will if necessary; but to run about expressing it for one’s personal satisfaction or the satisfaction of others is only to spoil and lose it.