Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume IV - Part 2

Fragment ID: 14001

It was indeed a microscopically small cause for so strong an upsetting, but really it is the whole difficulty of this raw and unreasonable sensitiveness which cropped up with this very infinitesimally small excuse – and that sensitiveness is one of the most persistent obstacles of many sadhaks here. There are two remedies for it – the psychic’s confidence in the Mother and the surrender that goes with it, i.e. “whatever she wills is best for me”, and the vastness which you feel now,– it is the wideness of the true self, of the true mental, vital, physical being also, from which such things fall off like dust, for they are of no importance to it whatever.

It is the one thing to do, to get permanently into the wideness, peace and silence and let the ego dissolve in it and the attachments fall away.