it when it insists the same consent as you give to the Mother’s force when you are clear. Passivity to the contrary force – that is the only answer to your “what is all this”.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1935
Fragment ID: 17213
1935
Why have I to keep fighting out all that is lower? The old things constantly return. What is all this?
If you allow the lower to come back again, you have to fight it out again.
It is the habit of responding to the old things and giving it when it insists the same consent as you give to the Mother’s force when you are clear. Passivity to the contrary force – that is the only answer to your “what is all this”.