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Sri Aurobindo

Essays Divine and Human

Writings from Manuscripts. 1910 – 1950

Partial Systems of Yoga

Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Works

141

Desire is always sinning against the Truth; it thins it and prevents it from taking body. Desire does not eternalise descending Truth; it disintegrates, makes temporal, minimises and soon or at last abandons from dissatisfaction (vairagya) its maimed creation.

Circa 1927