Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume II - Part 1
Fragment ID: 11352
Because through it [surrender to the Guru]1 you surrender not only to the impersonal but to the personal, not only to the Divine in yourself but to the Divine outside you; you get a chance for the surpassing of ego not only by retreat into the Self where ego does not exist, but in the personal nature where it is the ruler. It is the sign of the will to complete surrender to the total Divine, samagraṃ māṃ mānuṣīṃ tanum āśritam. Of course it must be a genuine spiritual surrender for all this to be true.
1 The correspondent asked, “What makes the surrender to the Guru so grand and glorious as to be called the surrender beyond all surrenders?” – Ed.