Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

5. On Three Works of the Mother

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“You have no longer anything that you can call your own; you feel everything as coming from the Divine, and you have to offer it back to its source. When you can realise that, then even the smallest thing to which you do not usually pay much attention or care, ceases to be trivial and insignificant; it becomes full of meaning and it opens up a vast horizon beyond” [p. 23]. Is this as elementary a stage as the stage of “aspire and draw”?¹

Not so elementary.

“But if we want the Divine to reign here we must give all we have and are and do here to the Divine” [p. 25]. If one does this completely, has he anything more to do?

No. But it is not easy to do it completely.

How can we recognise someone who gives all he has and is and does to the Divine?

You can’t, unless you have the inner vision.

14 January 1937

¹ See the letter of 5 January 1937 on page 614. – Ed.

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