Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1936

Letter ID: 1796

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

December 10, 1936

Here is Jatin’s letter. Why is he seeing visions of engineering, with the Super-engineer at his side? What significance, if any, of the dream? To be fulfilled here or there? He wants to be a yogi; don’t you see?

He was moving in the vital plane which is not bound by the mental will or by the physical realities. There a certain capacity in him was being turned to the Divine Work and the building was symbolic of that, also the power of undertaking my suggestions without speech.

Why then all these un-yogic engineering dreams and visions, when he is concentrating all his efforts with the view to become a super-yogi?

You must dismiss these mental limitations if you want to understand the occult worlds. The vital world has its own law of working, system of events and symbols – it is not bound by the waking mind.

Please give him a satisfactory reply, and what about his letter remaining with you for eternity!

Which letter? there is more than one, I believe.

Mark that he gets tremendous peace by thinking of you.

Naturally, as he meets in me the source of Peace.