Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
It is indeed amazing that you should have lent yourself to an extravagant deception such as M has set on foot. It is simply the same spirit of vital falsehood, dramatic and romantic, obscuring the reason and shutting out commonsense and simple truth and vanity which had impelled M. To clear the vital, to get rid of the old Sahana in it, you 
must get out of it all compromise with falsehood – no matter how specious the reason it advances – and get the habit of simple straightforward psychic truth engraved init – so that nothing may have a chance to enter. If this lesson can be imprinted in that part of the vital which is capable of such compromises – some good will come out of this wrong movement. Put the mother’s notice hence-forth at the door of your vital being «No falsehood hereafter shall ever enter herein» and station a sentry there to see that it is put into execution.