These principles of aspiration, rejection, surrender are tricky to apply in real life. That is something we should discuss. For example, in the Auroville Today interview, our biographer states http://www.auroville.org/journals&media/avtoday/August_2008/An_extraordinarily_complex_individual.htm > The problems are aggravated when limits are set as to what > can be said or thought about a subject. The person who > advised me to search for “authentic documents” felt > squeamish about using certain documentary accounts. > One of the most detailed accounts of Aurobindo's life in > school was written by a classmate who sent a report to > the Government of India after Sri Aurobindo's arrest in > the Alipore Bomb Case. It was clear from his language that > he did not like Sri Aurobindo. My advisor thought that the > document should not be published or even referred to. > This obviously is not the right way for a historian to proceed. 1) His adviser, Parekh, probably used his cultural instinct and said out of humility and deference to his Guru that the thing should not be published. 2) The biographer who was brought up in the West used his own cultural instinct and said everything about his subject Aurobindo must be laid before the readers so they can judge for themselves. For a genuine Sadhak, the correct answer lies in some third position. It is how you arrive at the answer that matters more than the answer itself...