Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Kamala’s Correspondence with
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

Fragment ID: 15750

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Sri Aurobindo — Kamala Amin

May 1, 1937

Mother,

For the last few days, sometimes I feel good and sometimes bad. I do not understand this state of my being. I feel like a puppet, sometimes happy and sometimes sad.

These vibrations are natural to the vital, but ordinarily they take the pretext of some outward cause; when no such cause is found they still come and it is then because they seem to have no reason that one feels like that – as if one were a puppet of these movements. In fact all human beings are moved like that – like puppets by the vital nature, but they don’t perceive it. It is only when one gets a higher spiritual control that one is the master not the puppet of the nature.

Sri Aurobindo