Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1934 — 1935

Letter ID: 621

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

September 13, 1935

It is a pity you have lost all gladness or enthusiasm for the way of psychic devotion, for surely you had some and whatever you may say, it had brought a real progress – not in startling experiences, certainly, but in a movement of the being God-wards – a turn towards the way of inner spiritual ripeness. However, if you don’t feel like continuing it, I suppose it is no use your forcing yourself. I still hope you will at some time come back to it yourself.

Asceticism has its own uses provided it is done very seriously and consistently, and if you felt a real call that way I would not say no. Of course, you can try the meditation still. It may succeed in spite of the despondency. For sometimes, as I have seen in two or three cases recently, the change or experience comes in a most unexpected and irrational way.