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to expose them and get over them. This is very common.
And finally, if we go far enough, if we push the description far
enough, so long as there is a part of the being which contradicts
the central aspiration for the Divine, one is not perfectly sincere.
That is to say, a perfect sincerity is something extremely rare.
…When, at any moment, whatever may happen, the being has
given itself to the Divine and wants only the divine Will, when, no
matter what is going on in the being, at any moment whatever,
always, the whole being in perfect unanimity can say to the Di-
vine and feels for the Divine, “Let Thy Will be done”, when it is
spontaneous, total, integral, then you are sincere. But until this is
established, it is a mixed sincerity, more or less mixed, right up to
the point where one is not at all sincere.
CWM 6: 397-98 The Mother

Sincerity means more than mere honesty. It means that you mean
what you say, feel what you profess, are earnest in your will. As
the sadhak aspires to be an instrument of the Divine and one with
the Divine, sincerity in him means that he is really in earnest in his
aspiration and refuses all other will or impulse except the Divine’s.
CWSA 29: 50 Sri Aurobindo

Mental, vital, physical sincerity
Q: Is there a mental sincerity, a vital sincerity, a physical sincerity?
What is the difference between these sincerities?

Naturally, the principle of sincerity is the same everywhere, but its
working is different according to the states of being.
… To be perfectly sincere it is indispensable not to have any
preference, any desire, any attraction, any dislike, any sympathy
or antipathy, any attachment, any repulsion. One must have a to-
tal, integral vision of things, in which everything is in its place and
one has the same attitude towards all things: the attitude of true

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