Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1

Letter ID: 100

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

September 1930 (?)

... I will try to explain the concentration; it is not really very difficult or abstruse. Nor is the Yoga so mysterious as all that; almost all the elements in it are quite familiar to the Vedantin, Vaishnava or Tantrik. It is only the combination of elements and their orientation that is new – and of course its being put in English instead of Sanskritic terms.

The “too good” idea is a delusion – it does not depend on that; people with less intelligence, more vital confusion and resistance, have at length got the opening. The main thing is to get rid of the despondency and disturbance of the mind, make it more quiet and peaceful too as to receive. I don’t expect you at all to do the thing off your own bat, once you get the habit of receiving (as you did with the poetry) I am prepared to take you the whole way myself. Not in a day of course; kala [time] is necessary as well as the Guru.