Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Yoga

3. Religion, Morality, Idealism and Yoga

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Sri Aurobindo — Unknown addressee

April 9, 1937

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To concentrate most on one’s own spiritual growth and experience is the first necessity of the sadhak – to be eager to help others draws away from the inner work. To grow in the spirit is the greatest help one can give to others, for then something flows out naturally to those around that helps them.

¹ CWSA, volume 31: too eager

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² After this letter CWSA, volume 31 contains (perhaps taken from another letter) this sentence: There is also likely to be an overzeal and haste which clouds the discrimination and makes what help is given less effective than it should be.

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Current publication:

Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga // SABCL.- Volume 22. (≈ 28 vol. of CWSA).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1971.- 502 p.

Other publications:

Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga. IV // CWSA.- Volume 31. (≈ 22-24 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2014.- 820 p.

[Largest or earliest found passage: ] Sri Aurobindo. The Mother with the Letters on the Mother // CWSA.- Volume 32. (≈ 25 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2012.- 662 p.

Sri Aurobindo. Letters of Sri Aurobindo: In 4 Series.- Second Series [On Yoga].- Bombay: Sri Aurobindo Sircle, 1949.- 599 p.

Sri Aurobindo. On Himself and on the Mother // Sri Aurobindo International University Centre Collection.– Volume 1.– First Edition.– Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1953.– 782 p.

Sri Aurobindo. The Mother // SABCL.- Volume 25. (≈ 32 vol. of CWSA) The Mother with Letters on the Mother and Translations of Prayers and Meditations.– Popular Edition.– Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1972.– 496 p.