Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume IV - Part 2

Fragment ID: 14301

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Sri Aurobindo — Unknown addressee

April 9, 1937

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To concentrate most on one’s own spiritual growth and experience is the first necessity of the sadhak – to be too eager to help others draws away from the inner work. There is also likely to be an overzeal and haste which clouds the discrimination and makes what help is given less effective than it should be. To grow in the spirit is the greatest help one can give to others, for then something flows out naturally to those around that helps them.

¹ SABCL, volume 22; CWSA, volume 32; Letters of Sri Aurobindo. 2 Ser. eager

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² Perhaps, this sebtence was taken from another letter. At any rate it is absent in SABCL, volume 22; CWSA, volume 32; Letters of Sri Aurobindo. 2 Ser.

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Current publication:

Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga. IV // CWSA.- Volume 31. (≈ 22-24 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2014.- 820 p.

Other publications:

Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga // SABCL.- Volume 22. (≈ 28 vol. of CWSA).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1971.- 502 p.

[Largest or earliest found passage: ] Sri Aurobindo. The Mother with the Letters on the Mother // CWSA.- Volume 32. (≈ 25 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2012.- 662 p.

Sri Aurobindo. Letters of Sri Aurobindo: In 4 Series.- Second Series [On Yoga].- Bombay: Sri Aurobindo Sircle, 1949.- 599 p.