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Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1. 1933-34

Fragment ID: 16285

1933

The Mother has said: “If you surrender you have to give up effort, but that does not mean that you have to abandon also all willed action.” Will you kindly explain it?

Effort means straining endeavour. There can be an action with a will in it in which there is no strain of effort.