Page 8 - Sri Aurobindo on Humility

Ambition and vanity are things so natural to

the human consciousness—they have even

their use in ordinary life—that it is quite

natural that at first they should enter into

the sadhana also and linger even when they

are rejected.

But they have to be pushed out, before one is

far on the path—otherwise they are very

dangerous attendants and can pervert both

aspiration and siddhi.

~ Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, 31: 239