Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1934 — 1935
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I felt all day a tinge of regret re. Tagore – though I had all but expected it – knowing his positivistic rationalistic sceptical (and what not) intellectualism. Still, I had a regard 
for him and his views and his scepticism has, I suppose, some similarity with mine. So I ruminated a little pensively on his retraction of you. But what hurt me most is that other people should be sceptical about what I find myself doubting, e.g. the subjective and elusive and vague character of spiritual experiences and their seeming so far away to us mortals. When I think on these lines (the physical mind alas!), I justify such doubts and think it legitimate to have some translation of these in the world of hard reality. But when I find Tagore and Rolland and Russell express the same kind of doubts I feel I love you very much and all that you stand for, however doubtful validity your claim of the Supramental Reality might have seemed to me, before. Yes, it is strange but true. Nevertheless I feel a tinge of regret, even of sadness, that others don’t realise how great you are and are so impatient – even though I happen to be more impatient than they...
Russell has his
doubts because he has no spiritual experience. Rolland because he takes his emotional intellectuality for spirituality; as for Tagore
– if one is blind, it is quite natural for the human intelligence which is
rather an imbecile
thing at its best – to deny light
; if one’s highest natural vision is that of glimmering mists, it is equally natural to believe that all high vision is only
a mist or a glimmer. But Light exists for all that – and for all that spiritual
Truth is more than a mist and a glimmer.
Current publication:
[A letter: ] Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo to Dilip / edited by Sujata Nahar, Shankar Bandyopadhyay.- 1st ed.- In 4 Volumes.- Volume 2. 1934 – 1935.- Pune: Heri Krishna Mandir Trust; Mysore: Mira Aditi, 2003.- 405 p.
Other publications:
Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga // SABCL.- Volume 22. (≈ 28 vol. of CWSA).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1971.- 502 p.
Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga. I // CWSA.- Volume 28. (≈ 22 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2012.- 590 p.
Sri Aurobindo. Letters of Sri Aurobindo: In 4 Series.- Second Series [On Yoga].- Bombay: Sri Aurobindo Sircle, 1949.- 599 p.