Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

3. The Mother and the Practice of the Integral Yoga

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X once said to the Mother that if the sincerity was perfect there would be transformation in a day; to this the Mother replied “Yes”. I do not understand how that could be possible – a long process of conversion of consciousness compressed into one day’s work. Perhaps the Mother said yes to emphasise the importance of sincerity.

By sincerity Mother meant being open to no influence but the Divine’s only. Now, if the whole being were sincere in that sense even to every cell of the body, what could prevent the most rapid transformation? People cannot be like that, however much the enlightened part of them may want to, because of the nature of the Ignorance out of which the ordinary Prakriti has been built – hence the necessity of a long and laborious working.

26 July 1934