Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Forth Series

Fragment ID: 21949

There is no harm in the vital love provided it is purified of all insincerity (as, for example, self-importance etc.) and from all demand. To feel joy in seeing the Mother is all right, but to demand it as a right, to be upset or in revolt or abhimān when it is not given, to be jealous of others who get it – all that is demand and creates an impurity which spoils both the joy and the love.