Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Letters

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Sri Aurobindo — Chinmayi

Undated

I want to give my whole being to Mother with all my love. But there is the whole nature that won’t let me open myself. It lies like a weight on me and turns into ridicule all the efforts I make for getting out of it.

Not the whole nature – only a part of the vital nature. And even there it is not really your self, but something that has been imposed on the vital by the past and holds it still. That is why you feel it like a weight laid on you. It is bound to diminish and lose its present force, if you persistently refuse to accept it.

Sri Aurobindo