Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

3. The Mother and the Practice of the Integral Yoga

Fragment ID: 19178

That is what must be done. Trust in the Mother and will only to be open to her always and as quietly confident as may be. The work to be done is too great for the outer mind to understand how it is to be done; it is only by growing light and experience that one day it begins to understand – it is also too great and difficult for it to do by itself,– it can only help the Power that is working by its readiness, aspiration, faith, quietude. But in no sadhak are these things constant – the aspiration gets suspended, the faith wavers, the quietude is disturbed or shaken – but still the Mother is there at work and one has only to persevere,– finally the perseverance will be justified by the result. To give up is the one thing one must never do.

14 May 1936