Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 896

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

January 25, 1937

Biren’s letter. See, I am so sorry X. attacked him thus unscrupulously. Yet what lovely letters on honesty he wrote to me from Curseong! Oh, do hum X & Co. to ashes by your brahmateja for a change? What?

Why burn them to ashes? What Biren complains of is what politicians always do in a campaign. If Biren wants to do politics he will have to meet a lot more of that and worse things and learn to bear all with a sweet ineffable grin. Politics is in that respect a kind of Yoga in which one who acquires a Baldwinian or Asquithian samatā scores best. As the Gita says, “samatvaṃ yoga ucyate” [it is equality that is meant by Yoga] and also, “yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam” [Yoga is the true skill in works], while as for X and Co. he should remember the other saying, prakṛtim yāntibhūtāni [all existences follow their nature] – bhutas and politicians also...

What happened was that your song on Ramprasad put Mother into connection with something of the past and she got transferred there and saw a scene in connection with it...