Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

07. Transformation of the Vital

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The bitterness you feel is that of a restless and dissatisfied vital which did not get what it desired because it could not desire anything strongly and persistently. Otherwise it could have all the vital desires – marriage, friends, position, etc. – but it could stick to nothing owing to a kind of weak restlessness. In the yoga it has shown the same restless weakness,– otherwise it could by this time have attained something, and besides there was the sex-impulse which it would neither satisfy nor leave. You must know what you want and want it with your whole will – it is only so that there can be an end of this restlessness and failure.