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It is true that anger and strife are in the nature of the human
vital and do not go easily; but what is important is to have the
will to change and the clear perception that these things must
go. If that will and perception are there, then in the end they
will go. The most important help to it is, here also, for the psy-
chic being to grow within — for that brings a certain kindliness,
patience, charity towards all and one no longer regards every-
thing from the point of view of one's own ego and its pain or
pleasure, likings and dislikings. The second help is the growth
of the inner peace which outward things cannot trouble. With
the peace comes a calm wideness in which one perceives all
as one self, all beings as the children of the Mother and the
Mother dwelling in oneself and in all. It is that towards which
your sadhana will move, for these are the things which come
with the growth of the psychic and spiritual consciousness.
Then these troubled reactions to outward things will no longer
come.
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It is indeed when the quietude comes down from above or
comes out from the psychic that the vital becomes full of peace
or of kindliness and goodwill. It is therefore that the inner psy-
chic quietude first and afterwards the peace from above must
occupy the whole being. Otherwise such things as anger in
the vital can be controlled but it is difficult to get rid of them
altogether without this occupation by the inner quietude and
higher peace. That you should depend on the Mother for the
sadhana is the best attitude, for it is indeed her Force that does
the sadhana in you.
CWSA 31: 274-76 Sri Aurobindo

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