Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Himself and the Ashram

The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Volume 35

Work in the Ashram

Work and Sadhana [7]

The higher consciousness keeps contact with me only through my passive self. If I do more work, it disturbs the higher working. I don’t know what the cause of this is.

There is no special cause for it. It is always so with everybody unless one feels the Mother’s Force working through one in the action.

I find it hard to work while remaining in the Yogic consciousness. My inner state is too passive.

It is possible to work through the passive state even, provided one feels that one is not doing the work but it is being done through one.

You suggested another way — to keep the psychic in front. But I don’t know how to bring the psychic forward.

It comes forward of itself either through constant love and aspiration or when the mind and vital have been made ready by the descent from above and the working of the Force.

13 March 1935