Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17372

1935

So many sadhaks arc not able to understand the Mothers seriousness at Pranam. Could you not kindly clarify the real cause of the seriousness?

It is the wrong idea that if the Mother is serious it must be because of some personal displeasure against ‘me’ – each sadhak who complains of being the ‘me’. I have repeated a hundred times to complainants that it is nonsense, but nobody will give up his idea. It is too precious to the ego. The Mother’s seriousness is due to some absorption in some work she is doing or, very often, to some strong attack of hostile forces in the atmosphere.