Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 894

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

January 20, 1937

Mother has already written to you about this morning’s pranam – she was suffering from a bad attack on her body and had some difficulty in preventing more from coming. There was no intention of coldness to you or anybody, as you can understand, though others have complained also. I hope therefore you will have thrown aside any feelings that her supposed coldness – which did not or could not exist – raised in you.

My letter was only a repetition of what you yourself have written recently, that to grow in bhakti and self-giving is the only thing and it seems to me that you have been doing that very rapidly. That you do not recognise it is natural, because the bhakta has not the pride of the jnani and is apt to think that he has done nothing. The movement of bhakta has no doubt not reached the intensity or constant insistence on the surface which would make you feel satisfied that it is there, but that is a matter of time and growth and from my experience of these things I thought it better not to try and force the speed. That was all I meant. I hope therefore you will throw away the reaction my letter caused in you and get back the poise you had gained before.