I have known people who were physically very courageous, and were very, very cowardly morally, because men are made of different parts.
At the Feet of The Mother
Stories Told by the Mother
These stories are revelations of living truths conveyed to us by the Mother. Most of stories have been culled from her “Questions and Answers”. Available as e-books for reading offline. Some of them were also recorded on audio by Jhumur di.
Why does one feel afraid? I suppose it is because one is egoistic.
Perversion is a human disease, it occurs very rarely in animals, and then only in animals which have come close to man.
There is nothing more difficult than knowing exactly what one is; one must neither overrate oneself nor depreciate oneself.
Animals in their natural state do not ever overeat... But an animal living with man loses this instinct.
I knew animals which aspired to become human beings, but they were living with human beings.
Kiki played with a scorpion which stung it, the cat was almost dying, the Mother called Sri Aurobindo and told him, “Kiki has been stung by a scorpion, it must be cured.”
This cat always had a great aspiration, a kind of aspiration to become a human being, and in fact, when it left its body it entered a human body.
I assure you that in human beings I have rarely come across some of the virtues which I have seen in animals, very simple, unpretentious virtues.