Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume I - Part 4
Fragment ID: 10550
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Perhaps you could write (in Bengali)1 something to him about the true object of the Yoga – especially on two points:
(1) The object
is
not philanthropy but to find the Divine, to enter into the Divine Consciousness and find one’s true being (which is not the ego) in the Divine. (2) The ripus cannot be conquered by damana; even if it succeeds to some extent, it only keeps them down but does not destroy them, often compression only increases their force. It is by
purification through the Divine Consciousness entering into the egoistic nature and changing it that the
thing can be done.
As
for accepting him, it depends on his capacity to open himself to the Influence and receive it. If he likes to try, he can, but he will not succeed unless he is entirely in earnest. There is something in him that can turn to the Divine, but there is also much in his nature that may resist. It is only if he gives himself from deep within and is absolutely persevering in the Way that he can
succeed.
Give
him some idea of the central process of the Yoga, especially opening to the working of the Divine Power and rejection of all that is of the lower nature.
1 Sri Aurobindo wrote this reply to his secretary, Nolini Kanta Gupta, who replied to the correspondent. – Ed.
2 SABCL, volume 22: true object
3 SABCL, volume 22: of the yoga is
4 SABCL, volume 22: only by
5 SABCL, volume 22: this
6 This and next two sentences are omitted in SABCL, volume 22
7 SABCL, volume 22: then only can he
8 This sentence is omitted in SABCL, volume 22
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Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga. I // CWSA.- Volume 28. (≈ 22 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2012.- 590 p.
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