Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume II - Part 2

Fragment ID: 11785

If one does not encourage the devotion of the emotional being merely because the lower vital is not yet under control and acts differently, then how is the devotion to grow and how is the lower vital to change? Until the final clarification and harmonising of the nature there are always contradictions in the being, but that is not a reason for in any way suppressing the play of the better movements – on the contrary it is these that should be cultivated and made to increase.