Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Letters

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Sri Aurobindo — Rene (Aga Syed Yakub)

April 29, 1930

Yielding to desires is not the way of getting rid of them. There is no end to desires; each one that is satisfied is at once replaced. by another one and they go on clamouring more and more.

It is only by conquering the desires that you can get rid of them, by coming out of this consciousness of the lower nature and rising to a higher consciousness.

Sri Aurobindo