Q: I went to Aurobindo Ghosh being unhappy with God and you made him a God too. Please leave him a human being. Man cannot understand God, he can only understand man. So I request you to let Aurobindo Ghosh remain a human being and do not take away his discoveries and teachings from us by making him a God or make a philosophy out of it.
ALOKDA: Your letter reminds me of my dear friend (much elder and among the most well-read) late Professor CN Sharma who would say, God want us to become like him over the centuries, man in his haste quickly wants to make Him human. That probably comforts some as then there is nothing much to do or be. And it is perfectly fine. Nobody has any problem if someone wants to take Sri Aurobindo as yet another human being whose teachings inspire. Yet the greater truth stands always as the guiding light as revealed in Savitri.
‘This transfiguration is earth’s due to heaven:
A mutual debt binds man to the Supreme:
His nature we must put on as he put ours;
We are sons of God and must be even as he:
His human portion, we must grow divine.
Our life is a paradox with God for key.’
As to philosophy I agree. Sri Aurobindo did not want to be in the rank of philosophers anyways. Besides to call a Yogi philosopher or thinker is to indeed reduce him in stature.
Having said that I wonder which God are you trying to run away from? If there is a God, then He would be by definition Omnipresent and hence we can’t run away from Him how much we may dislike Him. And if there is no God then there is nobody to run away from. Most likely it is a God of your mind’s making, an image built through all that you heard or understood of Him. In that case, perhaps it may be better to try and understand Him and for that who can tell you better than Sri Aurobindo himself.
About Savitri | B1C3-08 The New Life (pp.28-29)