Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume IV - Part 3

Fragment ID: 14629

If these [practices of self-control] are done as moral virtues, they need not bring a spiritual state. It is only when they are observed as a spiritual discipline that they help – most of them, at least. A man may eat little and have no spirituality – but if he practises it as a means of self-mastery to get rid of the greed of food, then it helps.