Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Himself and the Ashram
CWSA 35
Fragment ID: 9070
(this fragment is largest or earliest found passage)
Sri Aurobindo — Unknown addressee
January 12, 1931
Acceptance as a Disciple, 1926 – 1949 [12]
You may get his photograph – it may help to see what kind of nature he has. But there is no need to go out of the way to persuade him; from his letter he does not seem altogether ready for the spiritual life. His idea of life seems to be rather moral and philanthropic than spiritual at present; and behind it is the attachment to the family life. If the impulse to seek the Divine of which he speaks is more than a mental turn suggested by a vague emotion, if it has really anything psychic in it, it will come out at its own time; there is no need to stimulate, and a premature stimulation may push him towards something for which he is not yet fit.
12 January 1931
Current publication:
[Largest or earliest found passage: ] Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Himself and the Ashram // CWSA.- Volume 35. (≈ 26 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2011.- 658 p.
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