Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1936

Letter ID: 1706

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

August 20, 1936

You simply say “the difficulty is there”! I wonder if anyone else here had to work under such a condition... To “detach” – isn’t it something Herculean for me?

Well, but it is not individual to you. Everyone has to do that with his difficulties. Detach means that the Witness in oneself has to stand back and refuse to look on the movement as his own (the soul’s own) and look on it as a habit of past nature or an invasion of general Nature. Then to deal with it as such. It may seem difficult, but it comes perfectly well by trying persistently.

If the mind goes on pressing and pressing, will the vital be prepared?

It does in the end.

Otherwise to take up the vital violently like D, doesn’t seem possible.

Violently? I don’t see how he did that.

To think that I will have to suffer like him for so many years before anything happens, freezes me!

That is not necessary.

If time permits, a comprehensive answer, please.

When time permits.

Mother would like you to go to the Hospital and ask the Doctor there what is really the matter with Swasti and how long they think he will have to stay there. Between doctor and doctor.