Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Himself and the Ashram

The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Volume 35

His Life and Attempts to Write about It
On His Published Prose Writings

Passages from Yogic Sadhan [1]

It is said in Yogic Sadhan: “The Will when it begins to act, will be hampered by the Swabhava; therefore until you are able to act on the Swabhava, you will not, should not bring your Will to bear upon {{0}}life.”[[Yogic Sadhan, in Record of Yoga, volume 11 of The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo, p. 1375.]] I don’t understand what this means.

I don’t remember the passage. Possibly it means that till you can act on the real nature in you and use the true will and consciousness, you should go on trying for that, and not try to shape life with an imperfect will and imperfect instrument.

18 September 1933