Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17374

1935

Is not the wrong reaction at Pranam due to my own little ego?

It is doubtful whether that is the personal ego. The ideas, demands etc. about Pranam are usually suggestions of the hostile Force. They come to each person in the same form.

It was the vital ego that once took pleasure in these reactions and indulged them – but once they have been rejected by the vital as you have recorded, they belong no more to it. Still a hostile Force brings them back by suggestions and represents them as your own, trusting to the old habit to accept the suggestions or at least vibrate and make a response.