Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

03. Basic Requisites of the Path

Fragment ID: 963

No surrender to the psychic being is demanded, the surrender is to the Divine. One approaches the Divine through faith; concrete experience comes as a result of sadhana. One cannot demand a direct experience without doing anything to prepare the consciousness for it.

If one feels the call, one follows it – if there is no call, then there is no need to seek the Divine. Faith is sufficient to start with – the idea that one must first understand and realise before one can seek is a mental error and, if it were true, would make all sadhana impossible – realisation can come only as a result of sadhana, not as its preliminary.