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In the thoughts you describe you came to see something
in yourself which is there more or less in all human beings, the
desire to be thought well of by others, to occupy a high place in
their esteem or their affection, to have honour, position, admi-
ration. When anybody joins this feeling to the idea of sadhana,
then the disposition to do the sadhana for that and not purely
and simply for the sake of the Divine comes in and there must
be disturbance or else an obstruction in the sadhana itself or if
in spite of it spiritual experience comes, then there is the dan-
ger of his misusing the experience to magnify his ego like the
man in the dream. All these dreams are coming to you to give
you a vivid and concrete knowledge and experience of what
these human defects are so that you may find it easier to throw
them out, to recognise them when they come in the waking
state and refuse them entrance. These things are not in your-
self only but in all human nature; they are the things one has to
get rid of or else to guard against so that one’s consecration to
the Divine may be complete, selfless, true and pure.
CWSA 30: 29-32 Sri Aurobindo

Difficult hours come to the earth to compel men to

overcome their small personal egoism and turn exclu-
sively to the Divine for help and light. The wisdom of

men is ignorant. Only the Divine knows.
CWM 16: 425 The Mother

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