Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 699

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

1936

Very glad to hear of the flood of aspiration. No harm in being interested or engrossed – it is a general spirit of offering that has to grow up.

The old Adam is always an obstinate chap, one can only press him out slowly, though now and then a big push nearer towards the door can be made. The thing is to get him nearer and nearer to the exit.

But what has the condition of the world to do with Grace? Grace is an individual affair. What the seers say is not that the world is a monument of divine Mercy or Grace, but that the Grace is waiting behind for one who turns from its ignorance or fully to the Divine.

anityam asukhaṃ lokam imam prāpya bhajasva mām [This world is full of misery and ephemeral: so turn to worship me. Gita, 9.33]

Of course we hope to initiate a better world here, but that is another matter. The individuals or some individuals first – afterwards the world may ask for its chance.