Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17284

1935

An impulse of jealousy came into my consciousness, the jealousy of another sadhak’s progress. But my vital itself rejected it, realising that if he advances faster my own perfection will be accelerated, for one sadhak’s progress automatically helps others.

Exactly so. A sadhak ought always to rejoice in the progress of another, as if it were his own.