At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo

04 October 1932

MYSELF: Mother, my Sweet Mother, tomorrow we shall have the opportunity to rest our heads on Your Feet. The eagerness, the joy, the inner push that I feel nowadays to go and see you — is it vital in character? I feel the movement starts from deep within myself and the whole of it remains and goes on deep behind my chest, nearly at the back. Is it merely a vital craving or desire? Or something deeper than that? I am unable to express exactly what I feel; it is some very strong and joyous movement.

SRI AUROBINDO: The original is not vital, it is psychic, it is only if disappointment comes in that there is evidence of the vital mixing in it some unruled movement. The vital has to share, but in the psychic way.

(4.10.32)