Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

07. Transformation of the Vital

Fragment ID: 3195

You do not seem to have a correct idea of the nature of vital desire. Vital desire grows by being indulged, it does not become satisfied. If your desire were indulged, it would begin to grow more and more and ask for more and more. That has been our constant experience with the sadhaks and it confirms what has always been known about desire. Desire and envy have to be thrown out of the consciousness – there is no other way to deal with them.