Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Sri Aurobindo — Sahana Devi

Undated

Whatever the truth be, this inquisitiveness belongs to the lower vital and you should get rid of it altogether. Something of the old habitual feeling must have entered into it, even if there was no pain or jealousy, because otherwise surely you would not have lost sleep or appetite– something still sticking as a habit in the most obscure physical layers of the vital. But even quite apart from any special interest in X, the whole movement is wrong in itself,– the very habit of eager curiosity in these matters; it is closely affiliated to the sex interest in the small physical being – so discard it altogether and make these layers entirely clear and pure.