Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17127

1935

Is it not possible to rub out the ego completely by a continued application of the Force?

It is possible if your consciousness associates itself with the action; then at least one can get rid of its major action and leave only minor traces. To get rid of the ego altogether, however, comes usually only by the descent of Consciousness from above and its occupation of the whole being aided of course by the rule of the psychic in the nature.