There is no fixed rule – sometimes it is the one, sometimes the other. But even when the thing is given, it is given a power – it has to be realised by the sadhak in consciousness and for that aspiration is necessary.
Nirodbaran
Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo
The Complete Set
When you give us flowers, are we to aspire for the things they stand for, or do you give them 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 a power – it has to be realised by the sadhak in consciousness and for that aspiration is necessary.
17.11.1933