At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo

22 November 1932

MYSELF: Mother Divine, I want to understand a point clearly. Kindly make me understand it. Sri Aurobindo has written to me — “a too great stiffness in the effort of the will” — “a too great stiffness” means what exactly?

SRI AUROBINDO: I mean a strong mental coercion on a recalcitrant part of the being — an outer tussle and wrestle to make it obey — that makes it resist more and brings reaction.

(22.11.32)