Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 35

Fragment ID: 8287

Neither Rejection nor Attachment [2]

It depends on what is meant by asceticism. I have no desires but I don’t lead outwardly an ascetic life, only a secluded one. According to the Gita, tyāga, the inner freedom from desire and attachment, is the true asceticism.

9 July 1937