Mother and I had cared for praise or blame, we would have been crushed long ago. It is only recently that the Asram has got “prestige” – before it was the target for an almost universal criticism, not to speak of the filthiest attacks.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
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Fragment ID: 9387
No Propaganda or Proselytism [11]
Is it not natural for us to feel proud of the praises bestowed on Duraiswami or feel a little “embarrassed” when things are said against X?
If the praise and blame of ignorant people is to be our standard, then we may say good-bye to the spiritual consciousness. If the Mother and I had cared for praise or blame, we would have been crushed long ago. It is only recently that the Asram has got “prestige” – before it was the target for an almost universal criticism, not to speak of the filthiest attacks.
2 July 1938