WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

Sweet Mother,

Is our vital formed solely of desires, selfish feelings, etc., or is there something good in it too?

Energy, strength, enthusiasm, artistic taste, boldness, forcefulness are there too, if we know how to use them in the true way.

A vital converted and consecrated to the Divine Will becomes a bold and forceful instrument that can overcome all obstacles. But it first has to be disciplined, and this it consents to only when the Divine is its master.

Blessings.

11 December 1969

Collected Works of The Mother, First Edition, Volume 16, p. 401