Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 3
What I don’t understand is why you take what other people say or think as if it were coming from the Mother or as if it were the law about Yoga. As you yourself write in this very letter we have always encouraged your friendships; I have myself written to you several times about this matter of 
friendship and Yoga – then why allow somebody’s opinion that Mother thinks this or that – cancel my own express pronouncement and get upset over it. Certainly Pavitra was not commissioned or authorised by the Mother to say these things, she had not even spoken to him about this matter; he expressed only his own idea about it. So you need not have any compunctions about your feelings for Baron or anybody else nor any compunctions about its incompatibility with Yoga. Once more when you have my own statement in your favour in my own [?] if illegible handwriting over my own (almost) supramental signature, that should be enough for you and other people’s ideas have no relevance.
I have read with interest your account of Baron’s talk with you. I am quite willing to help him in his aspiration if he decides to take up the inner spiritual life. We shall see him on the 21st and see what he is – everybody seems to be favourably impressed by him already.
Mother will see B. and hear his music tomorrow at 12.30. So you will come with him then.