Question: Did Mother Teresa's dynamism come from the vital, or did it come from her soul's conviction?

Sri Chinmoy: It was her soul’s conviction that she was able to manifest in her heart. Then, from her heart she brought it into her entire life. We say that the pure vital dynamism is of paramount importance for divine manifestation, which is true. But her dynamism came from her soul, which is even better, and from there it went into her heart and then into her life. Hers was the dynamism of the heart, not of the vital. You can say it was the illumination of her soul that was transferred first into her heart and then into her life proper. When it entered into her heart, it was dynamism; but when it entered into her life, it became sympathy or compassion. In the soul’s world it was illumination; in the heart it became dynamism and in the physical body, it became sympathy. Illumination has these two additional names. In her heart it became dynamism, and in her physical, earthly life it became sympathy or compassion.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Mother Teresa: Humanity’s Flower-Heart, Divinity’s Fragrance-Soul, part 3, Agni Press, 1997
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