Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Himself and the Ashram

The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Volume 35

Sadhana in the Ashram

Egoism among Sadhaks [2]

I looked up “squat” in the dictionary but could not guess which definition applied to my ego.

Squat = short in stature but broad and substantial, so difficult to get rid of.

You write: “not fat, completely, nor thin, but short and roundish and grey in colour.” What do all these symbols stand for?

Not tall and preeminent or flourishingly settled in self-fullness — roundish = plenty of it all the same

Grey = tamasic in tendency, therefore not aggressive, but obstinate in persistence. But these are not symbols, they are the temperamental figure of the ego.

5 November 1935