Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

3. The Mother and the Practice of the Integral Yoga

Fragment ID: 19424

Should one try to put out the Mother’s Force during work, if one is conscious of it?

It is the Mother’s Force that has to work through the sadhak, not the sadhak who has to work through the Mother’s Force.

If one is not yet conscious of her Force, should one put out one’s inner energy in work? How is the inner energy related to the outer energy?

The first stage is when one works with the outer energy, but there is an inner consciousness supporting it which relies wholly on the Mother. The second is when there is an inner consciousness and force which uses the outer instruments – the outer energy being quiescent or else a part only of the inner – while this inner consciousness knows that the force is the Mother’s or feels the Mother’s presence in it: there are different experiences in this respect. The third is when all is the Mother’s Force working.

10 April 1937