Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
I did not answer anything in your letter at once because there was nothing urgent which could not be answered afterwards and it was already late, nearly 6 in the morning, and everything would have been delayed still farther if I had answered this and other letters at once. We attached no importance whatever to the affair of J and the prasad – it was an insignificant trifle. As usual, you have allowed your imagination and your vital feelings to play and put yourself in a wrong condition without any reason whatever. We have seen nothing wrong in your attitude on Friday and we had not disbelieved anything you wrote.
It is surely time you got rid of this habit of the vital of setting yourself wrong for nothing. It is to begin with a wrong attitude to get upset because I do not answer immediately – that means that there is a mixture of vital demand in your expectation. You ought to have sufficient confidence in us, besides, to know that the absence of a reply does not mean any of the things you imagine.
The best thing that you can now do is to dismiss all this from your mind, get back into the right condition and resolve firmly not to let yourself fall into these deceptions of the vital feeling and imagination ever again in future.