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Jealousy

Guidance from the Mother
There is never any reason for jealousy. It is a very low and
ignorant movement.
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Jealousy comes from a narrowness of the mind and a weakness
of the heart. It is a great pity that so many are attacked by it.
Jealousy with its escort of slanders is the output of the weak
and the small.
It deserves more pity than anger, and must leave us per-
fectly indifferent to it, enjoying the bliss of our unshakable cer-
titude.
CWM 14: 261 The Mother

You seem to say in one passage of a letter that the Mother had
said to you that jealousy is inevitable in true love (in ordinary
life) and if it is not there when one sees the other loving else-
where, then they don't love each other! You must have strangely
misheard and misunderstood the Mother. It is just the opposite
of what the Mother has always said and thought and the very
contrary of all her knowledge and experience. It is the idea of the
ordinary mind about jealousy and love, not hers. She remembers
very well having told you just the opposite that, even in ordi-
nary life, one is not jealous if one has the true love. Jealousy is
the common movement of the human egoistic lower vital with
its grasping possessive instinct and it cannot be anything else.
I thought it better to make this clear so that there might be no
misleading impression that such movements of the lower vital
nature have any sanction or support in the truth of the soul; they
belong to the vital Ignorance, they are fruits of the vital ego.
CWSA 32: 384 Sri Aurobindo

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