Nirodbaran
Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo
The Complete Set
Why am I feeling so disturbed? Life seems to be a washout. Have I fallen again into the blessed lower vital dungeon?
I suppose so. It is the vital that refuses to leave its movements and yet at the same [time] can't enjoy them (i.e. why life seems to be a washout).
I am more and more relapsing into a gloom and glum.
Tamas of a disappointed but still recalcitrant vital.
Do you intend to give me a push or a kick this time at the Darshan, or just a touch as usual?
I think for that your vital has to make up your mind whether it is going to leave its old moorings or not. Otherwise a kick will only give it gloom and glum and a push make it tumble down and say “O Lord! what a washout is life!”
21.07.1935