Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17067

1935

Why does my nature tolerate the suggestion since it has no reasonable basis? It only creates a disturbance.

Because the vital nature from which the suggestion comes wants to be disturbed and creates a fictitious excuse for disturbance when no good reason (good from the vital point of view) actually exists.

The opposition of the vital is never reasonable, even when it puts forward reasons. It acts from its nature and habit of desire not from reason.