Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

3. The Mother and the Practice of the Integral Yoga

Fragment ID: 19304

My mind is not yet quiet and that is why I am not getting any joy in my sadhana, any experience or realisation – nothing at all. This makes me very sad and unhappy. May the Mother bestow on me the flow of Peace and help me to open my closed heart-centre.

There has always been too much reliance on the action of your own mind and will – that is why you cannot progress. If you could once get the habit of silent reliance on the power of the Mother – not merely calling it in to support your own effort – the obstacle would diminish and eventually disappear.

14 July 1929