At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo

30 November 1933

MYSELF: I understand that I shouldn’t pay any attention to whatever we do or say when seized by anger, for they aren’t really part of our true nature, but still when it happens, for the moment I am much disturbed.

SRI AUROBINDO: I think it would be quite useless and harmful to lay stress on things said by anyone in these fits of the whirl of dark forces or to resent or remember them at all for they are exaggerations and perversions of the vital mind, that boil up whenever the vital is in effervescence and they cannot be taken as something deliberately thought and spoken. It is better to let them disappear and be forgotten as if they had not been said — to give them importance strengthens them to return when the occasion arises.

(30.11.33)