Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Forth Series

Fragment ID: 21808

It is really simply the recurrence of an old habit of the nature. Look at it and see how trifling is the occasion of the rising of this anger and its outburst – it becomes more and more causeless – and the absurdity of such movements itself. It would not really be difficult to get rid of it if, when it comes, you looked at it calmly – for it is perfectly possible to stand back in one part of the being, observing in a detached equanimity even while the anger rises on the surface – as if it were some one else in your being who had the anger. The difficulty is that you get alarmed and upset and that makes it easier for the thing to get hold of your mind which it should not do.

Help we are giving you – stand back so as to be able to feel it and not this obsession of these surface movements.