Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 16854

1935

Rejection and detachment when there is a rush of difficulties are good. But I feel they are hardly enough. Something more seems to be needed; the Mother knows what it is and how to do it.

You are always expecting the Mother to do it – and here again the laziness and tamas come in – it is the spirit of tamasic surrender. If the Mother puts you back into a good condition, your vital pulls you down again. How is that to stop so long as you say Yes to the vital and accept its discouragement and restlessness and anguish and the rest of it as your own? Detachment is absolutely necessary.