Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Sri Aurobindo — Sahana Devi

May 16, 1933

Why should you decide before hand that your birthday is spoiled? You have only to throw off all these undesirable ideas and feelings which proceed from a still imperfectly purified part of the external being and take the right attitude which you should always have when you come to the Mother. There should be no idea of what others have or have not – your relation is between the Mother and yourself and has nothing to do with others. Nothing should exist for you but yourself and the Divine– yourself receiving, her forces flowing into you.

To secure that better do not spend the time at your disposal in speech – especially if anything of the depression remains with you, it will waste the time in discussing things which cannot help the true consciousness to predominate. Concentrate, open yourself and let the Mother bring you back to the psychic condition by what she will pour into you in meditation and silence.