Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

5. On Three Works of the Mother

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In Conversations the Mother writes: “Surrender will not diminish, but increase; it will not lessen or weaken or destroy your personality, it will fortify and aggrandise it” [p. 114]. Is this meant in an external sense or in an internal sense only?

It is meant in the inner sense only – no outer greatness is meant. All submission is regarded by the ego as lowering and lessening itself, but really submission to the Divine increases and greatens the being, that is what is meant.

25 August 1937