Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17270

1935

“Is it really possible to bring Narbheram back to a right attitude in his sadhana – your Force using me as an instrument?”

Are not the above suggestions stupid? You have often warned me that such ideas are formulated by the outer being and that they are usually inspired by a subtle delusion of the human ego. Why then do they still insist after my denials?

Of course such suggestions are meant to wake the ego. I suppose they persist because they still have a hope of waking the ego. Even when one is quite free all kinds of suggestions can come. One either takes no notice of them or else gives a glance to see whether there is any fragment of ego still lurking somewhere.