Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1. 1933

Letter ID: 1128

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

July 29, 1933

[About a personal problem]

There is nothing unusual in your feelings towards X. It is the way that vital love usually takes when there is no strong psychic force to correct and uphold it. After the first vital glow is over, the incompatibility of the two egos begins to show itself and there is more and more strain in the relations – for one or both the demands of the other become intolerable to the vital part, there is constant irritation and the claim is felt as a burden and a yoke. The other elements of which you speak have nothing to do with this particular relation, they could have existed in a purely mental friendship or psychic relation without any vital demand on either side. Naturally in a life of sadhana there is no room for vital relations – they are a stumbling block preventing the wholesale turning of the nature towards the Divine.