Violet is the radiance of Krishna’s protection — that is why it brought to you a sense of peace. The Mother says that she always saw it when she was in communion with Krishna and now too constantly sees it enveloping the Ashram.
At the Feet of The Mother
Sri Aurobindo to Dilip, Vol-1, 1929-1933
It is queer that the European mind, capable enough in other directions should sink to so much puerility when it begins to deal with religion and spiritual experience.
It is very insincere for anyone to claim prematurely to have possession of the supermind or even a taste of it. Such claim is usually accompanied by an outburst of superegoism, some blunder of perception or wrong condition or wrong movement.
Text in English
If persistence of difficulties is a proof of unfitness, then there is nobody in this Ashram who is fit for the Yoga
Divinisation itself does not mean the destruction of the human elements; it means taking them up, showing them the way to their own perfection, raising them by purification and perfection to their full power and Ananda.
Rules are necessary but they are not absolute; one of the chief tendencies of genius is to break old rules and make departures which create new ones.
Your translation is admirable. I like it very much and fully appreciate the beauty of the phrase you have discovered to translate mine.
The true question for us could not be to love or not love the Mother ... but in what spirit to make the physical approach to her so as to avoid the mistakes of the past and get the most spiritual benefit from her contact.
What I want of you is not to love the Mother from a distance, but to become accustomed to feel her presence, her help, the working of her forces even when she is not physically present ... because it would give a great push to your Yoga.