Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1. 1936

Letter ID: 1527

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

January 19, 1936

I realise at every moment that I am neither made for the path of the Spirit, nor for any big endeavour in life. I know I shall be unhappy, but are all men born to be happy?

Man of sorrows! man of sorrows!! Knock him off, man, knock him off!