Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Sri Aurobindo — Sahana Devi

May 23, 1932

It is not anything physical but a vital depression (in some part of the vital, not the whole) that prevents the body from recovering its elasticity. There was some part of the vital that was resisting a radical change and even, unknown to your mind, trying to go on as it was undercover of the change in the rest of your being. This has now, owing to this last affair, received a blow and got depressed and, when the vital is depressed like that, it affects the body. You say rightly that it is part of a change or turn that is taking place. But these effects of inertia and axness need not continue; as soon as this vital part acquiesces gladly in the turn in change, the elasticity and energy will return.

I shall answer the rest of your letter as soon as I have been able to translate the gist of the letter to the Mother –I got it rather late tonight.