Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
03. Basic Requisites of the Path
Fragment ID: 994
It1 is meant in the inner sense only – no outer greatness is meant. All submission is regarded by the ego as lowering and lessening itself, but really submission to the Divine increases and greatens the being, that is what is meant.
1 This is an explanation of the following passage from Conversations by the Mother: “Surrender will not diminish, but increase you; it will not lessen or weaken or destroy your personality, it will fortify and aggrandise it.” (1966 Edition), p.126.