Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume I - Part 4
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Sri Aurobindo — Unknown addressee
September 14, 1933
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I don’t remember the context; but I suppose he [the writer of «Yogic Sadhan»] means that when one has to escape from the lower dharma, one has often to break
it so as to arrive at a 
larger one. E.g. social duties, paying debts, looking after family, helping
to serve your country, etc. etc. The man who turns to the spiritual life, has to leave all that behind him often and he is reproached by lots of people for his Adharma. But if he does not do this Adharma, he is bound for ever to the lower life – for there is always some duty there to be done – and cannot take up the spiritual dharma or can do it only when he is old and his faculties impaired.
1 SABCL, volume 22; Letters of Sri Aurobindo. 4 Ser. renounce
2 SABCL, volume 22; Letters of Sri Aurobindo. 4 Ser. help
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