Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 3
I did not expect that you would take what I wrote as a description of your personal ideas and feelings – if I had intended that I would certainly not have written in that way. As I usually do when I put things in the form of a mental reasoning, I took the idea dealt with and brought out its logical implications. I never meant that it had taken that form in your own thoughts and feelings about the Divine – any more than when I put the imaginary rationalist’s position with regard to God, which obviously could not be yours, as in that case you would never have thought of Yoga. I am sorry however that I put the thing in a way which could be misunderstood as personal sarcasm and still more that anything written by me should have so much disturbed you and prevented your recovery from depression. I hope that you will dismiss from your mind the idea that I meant anything like that.
I shall try to give you all the help in my power. I do hope that you will be able to get rid of the idea of personal impossibility or unfitness for reaching the goal – for it is not true and this feeling must be surely the cause of the feeling of suffering when you meditate.