Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17080

1935

The present absence of demand, struggle or despair is not because my vital has adopted any right attitude.

The point round which the condition revolves is this: “I can’t have any demands, very well, I abdicate.” Or, “How can I have any right of demands since I do practically no sadhana etc.” Is it not so?

It may be. The first is vital non-cooperation. The second is the usual vital reasoning; for the vital sadhana is only a basis for demands, satisfaction of pride, ambition or desire. But this is just the attitude which leads to shipwreck in the end, if not corrected.