Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume I - Part 4

Fragment ID: 10516

It [the reason people remain calm and self-controlled in ordinary life] is social pressure accompanied by a certain habit of mental control born of the social pressure. It is not from peace at all. Remove the social pressure even partly and as in England and America recently people let themselves go and do according to the vital impulses instead of controlling them – except of course those who stick to the religious and moral ideas of the past even when society drifts away from these ideas.