Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17275

1935

What is this prevalent talk about the ‘advanced sadhaks’? Is it not nonsense, since we are all quite incapable of knowing who is more or less advanced in yoga?

Yes. The talk about advanced sadhaks is a thing I have always discouraged – but people go on because that appeals to the vital ego.

But who are these advanced sadhaks? How is an advanced sadhak known from an unadvanced one?