Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume I - Part 4
Fragment ID: 10501
If you feel no enthusiasm for the śrāddha it is better definitely to stop it. Once on this path there is no meaning in it any longer,– for the reason you yourself give1. The śrāddha is, besides, entirely on the vital plane and if help has to be given to those who have passed into other worlds of consciousness, there are better ways of doing it.
1 The correspondent said that a sadhak is expected to forget all conventional family relationships and live only for the Divine. – Ed.