Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

2. The Mother, Sri Aurobindo and the Integral Yoga

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After realisation whatever the Higher Will demands is the best¹ – but first detachment is the rule. To reach the Freedom without the discipline and detachment is given to few. The Mother and myself went for years through the utmost self-imposed bareness of life.

15 November 1933

¹ This reply was written in answer to a sadhak’s remark concerning the wearing of beautiful clothing. – Ed.

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