At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo

11 March 1933

MYSELF: Sweet Mother, again depression! Not very strong, not swallowing me up. I have realised concretely the truth that each depression makes the resolution for the Divine more firm. I am sending my experience of this in the form of a sentence, expecting Sri Aurobindo to correct it. The last time he did it so well!

(This is how Sri Aurobindo put it now: “Each depression overcome kindles a new aspiration in the heart, consolidates the mind’s resolution, opens up a new, a more elevated relation with the Mother.”)

SRI AUROBINDO: There may be something in a half subconscient form which causes the mechanical vital repetition of old thoughts, but can no longer take a strong mental or vital shape: so even if it is there, there is no necessity to trouble much about it — it can be left to fade out. The depression may have been largely atmospheric and of the mechanical physical kind — that can be more easily thrown away.

(11.3.33)