Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume II - Part 1

Fragment ID: 11023

Most of the sadhaks have similar thoughts [of hostility and ingratitude] – or had them at one time or another. They rise from the vital ego which either does not want the Divine or wants It for its own purpose and not for the Divine’s purpose. It gets furious when it is pressed to change or when its desires are not satisfied – that is at the root of all these things. That is why we insist on surrender in this Yoga – because it is only by the surrender (especially of the vital ego) that these things can go – to accept the Divine for the Divine’s sake and for no other motive and in the Divine’s way and not in one’s own way or on one’s own conditions.