At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo

19 November 1933

MYSELF: Mother, Sri Aurobindo has written of a positive way, not a negative way. I can’t make out what it means. Please explain.

SRI AUROBINDO: By negative I mean merely repressing the desire and wrong movements and egoism, by positive I mean the bringing down of light and peace and purity in those parts from above. I do not mean that these movements are not to be rejected — but all the energy should not be directed solely to rejection; it must also be directed to the positive replacement of them by the higher consciousness. The more this consciousness comes, the easier also will the rejection be.

(19.11.33)