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The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Two Things
06/02/2023
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A practical tip against obession
06/04/2023
Published by Sri Aurobindo on 06/03/2023
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  • Letters on Yoga - III
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  • miserable
  • passivity
  • surrender
Sri Aurobindo Ashram's The Mother Charan

I wanted to stress two things, that is why I have written so much about them.

1) There must be no tamasic (inert, passive) surrender to the Mother—for that will bring as its reaction a passive inert helplessness before the lower or hostile forces or suggestions, an unresisting or helplessly resisting acquiescence or sufferance of these inroads. A passive condition can bring much peace, quietude, joy even, but it disperses the being instead of concentrating it in wideness and the will becomes atrophied. Surrender must be luminous, active, a willed offering to the Mother and reception of her force and support to its workings, at the same time a strong vigilant will to reject all that is not hers. Too many sadhaks cry before the attacks of their lower nature “I am helpless, I cannot react, it comes and makes me do what it wants.” This is a wrong passivity.

2) One must not get into the habit of a state in which one is always in a struggle with suggestions and forces. People very easily fall into this and make it a habit—the vital part takes a sort of glowing satisfaction in crying out “I am attacked, overborne, suffering, miserable! How tragic is my fate! Why do you not help, O Divine? There is no help, nor Divine Grace? I am left to my misery and downfall etc. etc. etc.” I do not want one more sadhak to fall into this condition—that is why I am calling Halt! before you get entangled into this kind of habit of constant struggle. It is what these forces want—to make you feel helpless, defeated, overcome. You must not allow it.

Ref : Letters on Yoga Vol.III

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