Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

4. The Mother in the Life of the Ashram

Fragment ID: 20113

When the Mother gives us flowers, are we to aspire for the things they stand for or does she give these things with the flowers?

There is no fixed rule – sometimes it is the one, sometimes the other. But even when the thing is given, it is given in power – it has to be realised by the sadhak in consciousness and for that aspiration is necessary.

17 November 1933