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Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17322

1935

Why does our being sometimes resist actively, sometimes passively?

When the struggle is there, it always does like that – there is a fluctuation according as the inner consciousness reacts or not. but that reaction is not always on the surface.

It is when one identifies oneself with the exterior consciousness (so that one can say, “There is no hope for me, I can’t do anything”) that the trouble comes.