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Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17328

1935

Can sadness help one cure dryness in the vital being?

I do not know that sadness has the power to cure. I have myself followed the Gita’s path of equanimity – but for some the psychic sadness may be necessary. But I think it is more an indication of a mistake than a cure. Tamasic indifference is one thing and the absence of sorrow is another. One has to observe what is wrong and do all that one can to set it right. Sadness in itself has no power to cure what is wrong, a firm quiet persistent will has the power.