Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1934 — 1935

Letter ID: 609

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

August 22, 1935

(...) Subhash writes about all my friends being eager to welcome me back if I return now – surely I have been in seclusion long enough, etc., etc., etc. – activism philosophy, vous comprenez? I wrote back – a quoi bon, en un mot [what is the use, in a word]. Strange that, is it not? When I am disappointed in Yoga I pout at the Divine but when I am called to return to the unDivine I staunchly and unflinchingly refuse! Inscrutable are the ways of the supramental, what?

But, good Lord, that is not the Supramental – there are no such contradictions in the Supramental. These are “the ways” of the mental-vital being in its search for the Supramental or rather for the Divine on any plane – and that is a very different affair. It is only a colloquy on the way between the vital and the psychic, the one saying, “Here, I say, where is this confounded Divine of yours?” the other, “Ah! people want me to give up my Divine! I’ll be damned (I know it) if I do!”