Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

4. The Mother in the Life of the Ashram

Fragment ID: 19898

Do love and faith have the same meaning? I feel that where there is faith in the Mother, love is also there. Without the faith, there is no love; without the love, there is no faith. Am I right?

Not always. There are plenty of people who have some faith without love, though they may have a certain kind of mental bhakti, and plenty who have some love but no faith. But if it is the true psychic love, then faith goes with it, and if there is the entire faith, then the psychic love becomes soon awake.

Speaking with X , I said: “Where there is faith in the Mother, there is love as well.”

You are right – if it is the soul’s faith, the soul’s love – but in some there is only a vital feeling and that brings, when it is disappointed, revolt and anger and they go away.

8 May 1933