... central motive and a fixed part of our nature. Its satisfaction must become a necessity of our psychological being, just as the family idea or the national idea has become each a psychological motive with its own need of satisfaction. But how is this to be done? The family idea had the advantage of growing out of a primary vital need in our being and therefore it had not the least difficulty in becoming ...
... ground for their sorrow? I am pretty sure that they did not. So their sorrow, if they have any, is not true but the result of conventional thoughts and feelings; it is all illusion coming from the family idea, which is one of the most artificial and false of all conventions. In truth the child was not in their atmosphere, otherwise they would have become aware of his death without needing to receive ...
... ground for their sorrow? I am pretty sure that they did not. So their sorrow, if they have any, is not true but the result of conventional thoughts and feelings; it is all illusion coming from the family idea which is one of the most artificial and false of all conventions. In truth the child was not in their atmosphere, otherwise they would have become aware of his death without needing to receive ...
... but if you take the young ones, who are not spoilt yet – although they too get spoilt very Page 163 easily – those who are .not spoilt too much by the usual education, by family ideas, ancestral inclinations, you have just a chance of turning their consciousness to the true path and obtain somewhat tangible and concrete results. To speak the truth, we have had nothing to complain... education and, in a general way, the psychological basis of our activities here. These things have, of course, been written about and spoken of by me and by Sri Aurobindo very often, but evidently the idea does not seem to have entered your consciousness. I do not wish to wage a war against what you feel and do, but I would like you at least to understand why things are done here in the way they are... the others, the conceit that they stand comparison with the others – the males! I am told people have been remarking – people naturally not accustomed to our ways – people with their own old-world ideas – and asking why we have the same programme of physical education for both boys and girls, why the girls are not treated in a special way, quite differently from the boys – is it not a gross error even ...
... their attitude and their point of view, but if you take the young ones, who are not spoilt yet—although they too get spoilt too easily— those who are not spoilt too much by the usual education, by family ideas, ancestral inclinations, you have just a chance of turning their consciousness to the true path and obtain somewhat tangible and concrete results. To speak the truth, we have had nothing... education and, in a general way, the psychological basis of our activities here. These things have, of course, been written about and spoken of by me and by Sri Aurobindo very often, but evidently the idea does not seem to have entered your consciousness. I do not wish to wage a war against what you feel and do, but I would like you at least to understand why things are done here in the way they... that they stand comparison with the others—the males ! I am told people have been remarking—people Page 94 naturally not accustomed to our ways—people with their own old-world ideas—and asking why we have the same programme of physical education for both boys and girls, why the girls are not treated in a special way, quite differently from the boys—is it not a gross error even ...
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