Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 35

Fragment ID: 8408

Passages from The Mother [22]

In the book The Mother what is the sense of “false adaptation” [p. 53] – is it something like a mason doing a coolie’s work?

Well, yes – it means misapplication of any kind and fitting things in where they do not really fit – whether with regard to ideas, activities, or anything else.

“Only when the Four have founded their harmony and freedom of movement in the transformed mind and life and body ...” [p. 56]. Here does “transformed” mean the full transformation?

At any rate a sufficient foundation of the harmony in a sufficiently transformed Nature for still greater things to come in without perturbation of the Nature.

29 March 1933