Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Forth Series

Fragment ID: 21499

This kind of manifestation (Adesh) comes very often at a certain stage of the practice of Yoga. My experience is that it does not come from the highest source and cannot be relied upon and it is better to wait until one is able to enter a higher consciousness and a greater truth than any that these communications represent. Sometimes they come from beings of an intermediate plane who want to use the sadhaka for some work or purpose. Many sadhakas accept and some, though by no means all, succeed in doing something, but it is often at the cost of the greater aims of Yoga. In other cases they come from beings who are hostile to the sadhana and wish to bring it to nothing by exciting ambition, the illusion of a great work or some other form of ego. Each sadhaka must decide for himself (unless he has a Guru to guide him) whether to treat it as a temptation or a mission.