Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

SABCL 26

Fragment ID: 7583

Such guidance as he received from his earliest gurus and such partial realisation as he was then able to achieve only reinforced his faith in Yoga as the sole cure for his own “rooted sorrow” and for the manifold ills of humanity.

(Sri Aurobindo put an interrogation mark against the word “gurus”.)

There was no resort to Yoga as a cure for sorrow; there was no sorrow to cure. He had always in him a considerable equanimity in his nature in face of the world and its difficulties, and after some inward depression in his adolescence (not due to any outward circumstances, and not amounting to sorrow or melancholy, for it was only a strain in the temperament), this became fairly settled.