Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17124

1935

What do these symbols of the ego stand for?

Squat=short in stature but broad and substantial, so difficult to get rid of.

Not tall and pre-eminent or flourishingly settled in self-fullness.

Roundish =plenty of it all the same.

Grey=tamasic in tendency, therefore not aggressive, but obstinate in persistence.

But these are not symbols, they are the temperamental figures of the ego.