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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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