At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo

20 May 1932

MYSELF: When I commit a fault, I repent and cause myself much pain. I don’t know why I should feel so intensely.

SRI AUROBINDO: It is a certain excess and exaggeration somewhere in your vital. A greater constant calm and control in your vital — the whole of it — is necessary. For these movements do not help — they prevent a quick recovery and shake the nerves and the body and push to unreasoned action.

(20.5.32)