Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

2. The Mother, Sri Aurobindo and the Integral Yoga

Fragment ID: 19092

It seemed to me that the Mother did not respond to my smile yesterday and that she put unnecessary pressure on me in regard to X’s letter. And when you replied to my note in the evening with a simple “all right”, I felt a terrible emptiness and a want of sympathy. It seemed as if your “all right” was also a sort of pressure in regard to X’s letter.

The Mother put no pressure whatever about X’s letter and there was no reason why she should do so. As for myself, I never even thought of it when I wrote the “all right”. The word “pressure” besides is an entirely wrong one to use; the only thing we put is a supporting force to help you in your difficulties or else to bring down more peace and more of the higher consciousness. I do not see how that can be described as an unnecessary pressure or produce bad consequences. But the idea that we were displeased about X’s letter or withdrew our support or were putting any kind of pressure about it is absolutely groundless. You ought not to make constructions of the mind like that or believe in them; for it is always these wrong constructions that upset you.

5 June 1936