Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 3
Letter ID: 900
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
February 11, 1937
I will certainly send all the force available and hope the neck will lose its undesirable tendency to stiffness and other things again tend to OK-ness.
The Divine may be difficult, but his difficulties can be overcome if one keeps at Him. Even my smilelessness was overcome which Nevinson1 had remarked with horror more than twenty years before – the most dangerous man in India, Aurobindo Ghose “the man who never smiles”. He ought to have added, “but who always jokes”; but he did not know that, as I was very solemn with him, or perhaps I had not developed sufficiently on that side then. Anyhow if you could overcome that, you are bound to overcome all the other difficulties also.
1 H.W. Nevinson (1856-1941). War correspondent and novelist – for further details see Mother’s Chronicles, Book V, Mirra Meets the Revolutionary.