Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17141

1935

In spite of my vigilant eye how on earth could the ego get in?

So long as you had fully the attitude of surrender, the rajasic ego could only take the form of suggestions from outside, uprisings from the subconscient. It was suppressed in the vital. When the inertia rose and the energy of will receded, it began to try to come in again.