Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

SABCL 26

Fragment ID: 8146

If the praise and blame of ignorant people is to be our standard, then we may say good-bye to the spiritual cause. If the Mother and I had cared for praise or blame we would have been crushed long ago. It is only recently that the Ashram has got “prestige” – before it was the target for an almost universal criticism, not to speak of the filthiest attacks.

[Nirodbaran’s Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo, page 1108 – July 2, 1938]