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24 November 2021 – Siddhi Day Message
11/24/2021
Separation from the vital and ego
11/26/2021
Published by Sri Aurobindo on 11/25/2021
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The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Q: In spite of my vigilant eye how on earth could the ego get in?

So long as you had fully the attitude of surrender, the rajasic ego could only take the form of suggestions from outside, uprisings from the subconscient. It was suppressed in the vital. When the inertia rose and the energy of will receded, it began to try to come in again.

Q: I had thought that at least the rajasic ego had been eliminated!

Do you mean to say that you never had any rajasic element in you? There is not a human being who has not got it in him so long as he is not divinised in his vital. What were all the vital suggestions coming to you so insistently always, except appeals to the rajasic ego? When you threw out sex, jealousy, vanity etc. what were you throwing out but the rajasic ego? What was the demand at the pranam or the disturbance caused there but a movement of the rajasic ego? Some of these things you threw out successfully — others still kept a response.

– Sri Aurobindo

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