Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume II - Part 1

Fragment ID: 11359

All that is popular Yoga¹. The Guru’s touch or grace may open something, but the difficulties have always to be worked out still. What is true is that if there is complete surrender which implies the prominence of the psychic, these difficulties are no longer felt as a burden or obstacle but only as superficial imperfections which the working of the grace will remove.

¹ The correspondent wrote, “It is said that if a disciple receives his Guru’s touch or grace, his main difficulties very often disappear.” – Ed.

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