Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

08. Human Relationships in Yoga

Fragment ID: 1553

These movements are part of man’s ignorant vital nature. The love which human beings feel for one another is also usually an egoistic vital love and these other movements, claim, demand, jealousy, abhimāna, anger, etc., are its common accompaniments. There is no place for them in yoga – nor in true love, psychic or divine. In yoga all love should be turned towards the Divine and to human or other beings only as vessels of the Divine – abhimāna and the rest should have no place in it.