Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume II - Part 1

Fragment ID: 11043

You are always expecting the Mother to do it [remove vital dissatisfaction and revolt] – and here again the laziness and tamas come in – it is the spirit of tamasic surrender. If the Mother puts you back into a good condition, your vital pulls you down again. How is that to stop so long as you say Yes to the vital and accept its discouragement and restlessness and anguish and the rest of it as your own? Detachment is absolutely necessary.