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What Is Sincerity

Degrees of Sincerity
Sincerity means to accept the Divine influence only and not
that of lower forces.
CWSA 29: 50

To be entirely sincere means to desire the divine Truth only, to
surrender yourself more and more to the Divine Mother, to reject
all personal demand and desire other than this one aspiration, to
offer every action in life to the Divine and do it as the work given
without bringing in the ego. This is the basis of the divine life.
CWSA 29: 51 Sri Aurobindo

To be sincere, all the parts of the being must be united in their
aspiration for the Divine — not that one part wants and others
refuse or revolt.
CWM 14: 65

Q: Sweet Mother, what does “sincerity” mean, exactly?

There are several degrees of sincerity.
...The first degree, you see, is when someone claims, for ex-
ample, to have a very great aspiration and to want the spiritual
life and, at the same time, does completely… how to put it? …
shamelessly, things which are most contradictory to the spiritual
life. This is indeed a degree of sincerity, rather of insincerity, which
is most obvious.
But there is a second degree… which is like this: there is one
part of the being which has an aspiration and says, even thinks,
even feels that it would very much like to get rid of defects, imper-
fections; and then, at the same time, other parts which hide these
defects and imperfections very carefully so as not to be compelled

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