Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17299

1935

You wrote,

“It is very often when one thinks a particular resistance is finished and is no longer in the vital that it surges up again.” Well, when it sinks down into oblivion would not the mind naturally say, “It is gone forever”?

The mind need not say, “It is gone for ever” – since that may not be true. It must keep simply the steady resolution to get rid of it, not to allow it if it comes back.