Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17516

1935

Often the human vital falls on an ignorant idea: if the Mother does not do this or that for me it means that she has no love for me. It has another obsession also which comes from jealousy: why so much more for others and so little or nothing for me? These seem to be stumbling-blocks for many sadhaks.

All that of course is not love, but self-love. Jealousy is only an ugly form of self-love. That is what people do not understand – they even think that demands and jealousy and wounded vanity are signs of love or at least natural attendants of it.