A fine poem. Self-offering is never easy, but when the soul desires it, the rest is sure to follow, whatever the obstacles. I have written to Prithwi Singh tonight1.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1934 — 1935
Letter ID: 673
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
December 30, 1935
A fine poem. Self-offering is never easy, but when the soul desires it, the rest is sure to follow, whatever the obstacles. I have written to Prithwi Singh tonight1.
I was not able to complete the letter as I had hoped tonight, but have made some headway. Apart from the pressure of other things and lack of time, the presentation of the subject is difficult, because what I have to say about it is new – not the old conventional idea of a departure from life into a state of consciousness which has nothing to do with life; for that is a very easy view to put forward and the questions you raise do not at all arise under it, since it is then a matter only of getting out of all life activity and not of transforming it. It is difficult to express what I have to say adequately without spreading oneself out a little, so it is getting longer than I expected – taking a bigger stretch of space and time. You will not mind that since it means a clearer and fuller statement of the whole affair.
1 In the letter of 30 December 1935 Sri Aurobindo asks Prithwi Singh to arrange for the sale of Dilip’s houses in Calcutta. (ref. Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh, p.63-64., Mira Aditi Centre, Mysore).