Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume I - Part 3

Fragment ID: 10380

It is quite true that the surrender and the consequent transformation of the whole being is the aim of the Yoga – the body is not excluded, but at the same time this part of the endeavour is the most difficult and doubtful – the rest, though not facile, is comparatively less difficult to accomplish. One must start with an inner control of the consciousness over the body, a power to make it obey more and more the will or the force transmitted to it. In the end as a higher and higher Force descends and the plasticity of the body increases, the transformation becomes possible.