Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume IV - Part 2

Fragment ID: 14088

Ambition and vanity are things so natural to the human consciousness – they have even their use in ordinary life – that it is quite natural that at first they should enter into the sadhana also and linger even when they are rejected. But they have to be pushed out, before one is far on the path – otherwise they are very dangerous attendants and can pervert both aspiration and siddhi.