Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1. 1933-34

Fragment ID: 16559

1933

Varnishing Amiya’s chest of drawers I felt, “How nicely I have applied the varnish! How pretty it looks!” Evidently such feelings are not acceptable. But what then am I to think in such a case, when the work is actually well performed?

To observe whether it is really well done or not and feel the Ananda of work done for the Mother. Get rid of the “I”. If it is well done, it is the Force that did it and your only part was to be a good or a bad instrument.