Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume II - Part 2

Fragment ID: 11771

You believe in traditional ideas of Yoga – well, according to traditional ideas also, the one easiest method is that of bhakti, reliance, self-giving, bhakti, nirbhara, samarpaṇa. What still stands in your way – for it was and is growing towards that in you, is an old confusion in mind and vital. The heart says, “I want bhakti”, the mind says, “No, no, let us reason”, the vital says, “Nonsense, I can’t surrender.” What you need is to quiet down that confusion created by the mind’s past sanskaras and either fix on the one thing or harmonise. Bhakti as the basic force, knowledge, strength and joy in the Divine as the result – that is the harmony proposed in this Yoga. But in either way, if either is done, then peace becomes easily possible.