WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

Isn't it better to tell you the ideas we have about someone so that you can correct them? Because if they are wrong, it is very dangerous.

Certainly, and the best thing is precisely to refrain from all ideas about people, for then there isn't any risk of having wrong ideas.

Of course, the best thing is not to have any ideas about people, but I don't think this is possible until the mind is purified. [new p. 40]

Yes, it is quite possible if the mind is interested and engrossed in something more useful.

23 May 1934

So it would be better to reject the ideas I have about others and stop making mental constructions about people?

Yes, it is preferable.

Collected Works of The Mother, First Edition, Volume 17, p. 40