Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 35

Fragment ID: 8394

Passages from The Mother [8]

“...surrender of oneself and all one is and has and every plane of the consciousness and every movement to the Divine and the Shakti” [p. 10]. Can I take this to mean surrender of the outward life to the Universal Nature through reason and will (i.e. a rational adaptation of the material life to the ways of Nature) and surrender of the inward life to the Divine through faith?

No. Universal Nature is a mass of forces, mental, vital and physical. The Divine is above with its supreme Shakti – and within behind Nature.

25 December 1934