Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 1

Fragment ID: 12055

All these [outward restraints such as moderation in eating food and drinking tea] are external things that have their use, but what I mean [by “the complete attitude of the sadhak”] is something more inward. I mean not to be interested in outward things for their own sake, following after them with desire, but at all times to be intent on one’s soul, living centrally in the inner being and its progress, taking outward things and action only as a means for the inner progress.