Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 3

Fragment ID: 12910

Egoism is part of the machinery – a chief part – of universal Nature, first to develop individuality out of indiscriminate force and substance of Nature and, secondly, to make the individual (through the machinery of egoistic thought, feeling, will and desire) a tool of the universal forces. It is only when one gets into touch with a higher Nature that it is possible to get free of this rule of ego and subjection to these forces.