Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 898

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

February 5, 1937

Well, yes, X had a bad fan after last August and she couldn’t right herself, because she did not take the right poise back that she had before. As for others and pranam, well, some people find themselves getting on famously with the morning meditation while others are desolate over the (temporary) lost pranam. These things go according to temperament and for the sun and shadow there seems to be no one law for all, nānā patho hi loke [many are the paths for men] and not nānā rucih [many tastes] only.

I do not disapprove of your resolution – my only point is that it should be done without the sadness, fear of depression or depression coming in. If the strength and steadiness can face and not flinch before the dryness, then the dryness won’t be there always: it is the upheavals (of the wrong kind) that are to be avoided. Something is growing in you, but it is all inside – still if there is the steady persistence it is bound to come out. For instance, this white dazzling light with currents, it is a sure sign of the Force (the Mother’s) entering and working in the ādhār [receptacle] but it came to you in sleep – that is to say, in the inner being, still behind the veil. The moment it came out, the dryness would disappear. My idea was that till it did come out and till the fear of the depression was no longer there, poetry and music should go hand in hand with a moderate amount of meditation. Still, if the urge to long meditations is there, I do not disapprove. Only keep your resolution firm that whatever the difficulty, you will keep on till you go through.