Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17546

1935

A seeker of this Yoga must guard himself against a rigid, dry and self-assertive mind. A wrongly developed intellect realises its own truth in its crooked ways. It builds a world out of itself and believes that to be a unique creation of all-truth! Then of course it becomes as difficult for him as well as for the Divine to pull him out of that grip of falsehood.

The intellect can be as great an obstacle as the vital when it chooses to prefer its own constructions to the Truth.