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self, above all in the aspiration, this truly is good. When there
is no longer a person who is aspiring, when it is an aspiration
which leaps up with a fully concentrated impulsion, then truly
it goes very far. Otherwise there is always mixed up in it a little
vanity, a little self-complacency, a little self-pity also, all kinds of
little things which come and spoil everything. But it is difficult.
CWM 6: 402

Eliminating the ego
Q: Sweet Mother, How can one eliminate the will of the ego?

This amounts to asking how one can eliminate the ego. It is
only by yoga that one can do it. There have been, throughout
the spiritual history of humanity, many methods of yoga —
which Sri Aurobindo has described and explained for us in The
Synthesis of Yoga.
But before eliminating the will of the ego, which takes a very
long time, one can begin by surrendering the will of the ego to
the Divine Will at every opportunity and finally in a constant
way. For this, the first step is to understand that the Divine
knows better than we what is good for us and what we truly
need, not only for our spiritual progress but also for our mate-
rial wellbeing, the health of our body and the proper function-
ing of all the activities of our being.
Naturally, this is not the opinion of the ego, which thinks
it knows better than anyone else what it needs, and claims for
itself independence of judgment and decision. But it thinks and
feels this way because it is ignorant, and gradually one has to
convince it that its perception and understanding are too limit-
ed for it truly to be able to know and that it judges only accord-
ing to its desires, which are blind, and not according to truth.
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