Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17366

1935

I would very much like to know about the nature of the Mother’s action on the sadhaks here. The human vital is so stupid and self-centred. In the beginning has she not to start working by slightly allowing the vitals indulgence and then slowly put some pressure either directly or indirectly for its change? Are these notions at all valid?

You attributed too many motives – e.g. that the Mother tries to allow the vital by indulging it in the beginning. She has no such intention. She behaves naturally and simply with the being – whatever change there is is in the vital’s impressions about her action rather than in the action itself – except in so far as there is a change necessitated by the change in the consciousness.