Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 839

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

October 1936

It was a vital emotionalism trying to rise to the sattwic plane and perhaps hoping therefore to find in Jawaharlal’s sattwic nature a response, but with a consciousness behind that this also would not bring satisfaction and peace. Your difficulty is that the vital has not yet arrived at the secret of the self-existent Ananda of love, the Ananda of love’s own pure truth, the inner beauty of it for its own sake, the secret of the inner abiding ecstasy – it cannot yet believe that the thing exists. But it is travelling towards it and this feeling about Jawaharlal was probably a stage – a groping after a purer vital emotion on the way to the purest of all which is one with the Divine.