At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo

03 July 1937

MYSELF: I feel often that weeping is a thing which opens the door to weakness, allows opportunities to those powers to enter which take away our mental will.

SRI AUROBINDO: It is quite correct that weeping brings in the forces that should be kept outside — for the weeping is a giving way of the inner control and an expression of vital reaction and ego. It is only the psychic weeping that does not open the door to these forces — but that is without affliction, tears of bhakti, spiritual emotion or Ananda.

Your experience was a very beautiful one — the inner being realised by it that which must be established in the waking state as the foundation of the spiritual consciousness and spiritual life.

(3.7.37)