Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1

Letter ID: 401

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

October 1933

We quite approve of your resolution about propaganda, etc. But at any rate this has helped your sadhana which is an example of how the cosmic spirit sometimes, at least, extracts good out of evil.

What you say about the ahaṅkār [ego-sense] of the instrument is true – it is one of the most sticky of the ego’s self-deceptions and there are few who can detect it soon or get early clear of it. I think I can congratulate you on your becoming aware of it at so early a stage. There are some who do not discover it even after ten or twenty years of sadhana....