Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17766

1935

I fail to understand how the ancient Yogis managed to spend their whole lives in only one pursuit – self-realisation? Is it really such a long process?

It is not a long process? The whole life and several lives more are often not enough to achieve it. Ramakrishna’s guru took 30 years to arrive and even then he did not claim that he had realised it.