Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1

Letter ID: 324

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

January 1933 (?)

I return Ashalata’s letter – certainly there seems to be a strength and substance in her intelligence which has an extraordinary promise for the future. I don’t know what were Lawrence’s ganglionic theories, but I am afraid the tangle of ganglia exist and are a more tragic obstacle to the human being than is realised by Aldous Huxley. His own famous novel (I have read only one) is really without his knowing it full of the tangle – so perhaps was the life of Lawrence.

As for your question about the relative value in work, it is not easy to make the Overmind view of these things comprehensible in mental language... [incomplete].