Page 11 - Sri Aurobindo on Humility

THE TAMASIC EGO is that which accepts and supports

despondency, weakness, inertia, self-depreciation,

unwillingness to act, unwillingness to know or be open,

fatigue, indolence, do-nothingness.

Contrary to the rajasic it says, “I am so weak, so obscure, so miserable,

so oppressed and ill-used—there is no hope for me, no success, I am

denied everything, I am unsupported—how can I do this, how can I do

that, I have no power for it, no capacity, I am helpless; let me die; let

me lie still and moan,” etc. etc. Of course not all that at once or in

every case; but I am giving the general character of the thing.

~ Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, 31: 225-226