Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

03. The Triple Transformation: Psychic – Spiritual – Supramental

Fragment ID: 2659

What you say is correct. All undesirable things are a mistranslation in the Ignorance of something that on a higher plane is or might be desirable. Inertia, tamas, is the mistranslation of the divine Shama, rest, quietude, peace; pain is a mistranslation of Ananda, lust of love etc. It is only when the lower perversions are got rid of that the higher things in their truth can reign.