Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1934 — 1935

Letter ID: 613

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

September 1935

But time, however Einsteinian, is not indefinitely elastic – so how to find time for the necessary except at the cost of the unnecessary. (...)

No, I did not put any conscious force for that this time. It was a resultant as you say, of several forces, among which may be counted the one I put upon you for the purpose that other time which you did not then diagnostise. It is a fact that forces so put are not altogether wasted but bide their time and become suddenly effective under the proper conditions at a later time. I have seen that hundreds of times – with very curious results since they act under circumstances which form no part of the Idea that originally put them forth. However your impulse was all right – only I value it more as a step in your conquest of ego than for its original purpose, though that too is all right. (...)