Page 372 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

Maya, we say. In this illusion all problems are solved! I don't say my ignorance covers me, is me etc. I don't. How am I eligible? I can't get rid of this world. It is too much with me. That is what we say.
But if people are in sorrow and misery, I suggest you like sorrow and misery and all the others that go with them. I say if it is there, you like sorrow and misery and so they are with you! That is what I suggest. Even sorrow is pleasant! Whether this is sadism or masochism it need not concern us. All that matters is you take delight in it. Mankind is not willing to give up its sorrows and miseries, or even to have an idea of the higher. How can religion help in overcoming this obsession for these things?
Religion has created idols or ideas. The mentals worship ideas, others worship systems-Advaita, Visistadvaita, etc. Concepts have become opaque to our understanding. Idol worship is no worse. We have any number of idols-Sri Krishna has 'said in whatever way you may worship me, in that way I shall come to you - To Gopis, a lover; to warriors, a warrior; to Saints, a saint'. So you could remain what you are! But while all this is alright, have you known that gamut of experience that Sri Krishna was? As Badarayana says, 'You must know me in the transcendent form Janmadyasya Yatah'. We must know the history of the great leela of God in all His manifestations, as the antaryami, as Virat, in all. Have we penetrated the idols? We can have idols, all idols, but they are not amenable to experience.
The real nature is the Transcendent which alone can give meaning and Reality to our existence. Idols can be smashed to pieces. Our conquerors have proved this to us. You may say you can put new idols in their place. But then we also know that all material things have to go. If not today, to- morrow or the day after. Even Cosmic personalities like Brahma also have to go. So what remains? Only the Cosmic Spirit.
Who can connect me directly with that Cosmic Spirit? Because out of that connection alone there is Yoga. That is what Yoga means. Connection with the Ultimate, the Tam. Anything less is of no use to us.
Sri Aurobindo, if I may humbly state, fell into that error. During my study of his system I found the weaknesses of the system. Sri Aurobindo stated