Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

3. The Mother and the Practice of the Integral Yoga

Fragment ID: 19225

Sometimes the thought comes to me: “Outwardly and inwardly, I am very far from the Mother.” Why does it come?

It is the feeling of the physical or outward being which is by its ignorance unable to feel the Mother’s nearness.

How can I convince myself of the falsity of this thought and drive it away?

The Mother is always near and within, it is only the obscurity of mind and vital that do not see or feel it. That is a knowledge which the mind ought to hold firmly.

29 April 1937