Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 827

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

September 22, 1936

It is not possible for me to tell you to go; for apart from anything else I do not believe in the impossibility the idea of which always troubles you. I believe in the ultimate action of the Power in you even though it be slow in its long preparatory action, that it will yet be sure, provided you stick to the Path in spite of storm and suffering – things which, as you truly say, will be found everywhere; for they can be surmounted only when one surmounts their cause. I cannot therefore advise you to cut short the thread of the endeavour.

I am therefore looking for you to overcome this dryness and despondency and get back to a firmer poise. Your japa had recently become for a time free from dryness and unpleasant reaction and was having a true effect on the consciousness. There is no reason why that should not be recovered and grow. This excess of vairagya comes always with these crises, but it is bound to be outgrown and change into a spiritual detachment in which there can be the free play of the energies offered for the use of the Divine.