There is no fixed rule – sometimes it is the one, sometimes the other. But even when the thing is given, it is given a power – it has to be realised by the sadhak in consciousness and for that aspiration is necessary.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 1. 1933
Letter ID: 1150
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
November 17, 1933
When you give us flowers, are we to aspire for the things they stand for, or do you give them with the flowers?
There is no fixed rule – sometimes it is the one, sometimes the other. But even when the thing is given, it is given a power – it has to be realised by the sadhak in consciousness and for that aspiration is necessary.