And overcast with error, grief and painSri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Fragment ID: 20334
And overcast with error, grief and pain
The soul’s native will for truth and joy and light.1
The two trios are not intended to be exactly correspondent; “joy” answers to both “grief” and “pain” while “light” is an addition in the second trio indicating the conditions for “truth” and “joy”.
1948
1 P. 203.