Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume III - Part 2
Fragment ID: 12274
Most of these visions are the result of your getting into contact with a certain field of forces in the vital world which are at present creating the pressure for war and revolution and all catastrophic things in Europe. It was from here that these menacing visions were coming. There is no coherence or reality in them. Chhinnamasta is a symbol of this kind of force, feeding as it were the world with her own blood.
They have to be at once rejected. It was not meant that you should be inactive, but that there was sufficient Force gathering to carry on the sadhana as if by an automatic action. But the consent of the sadhak, his rejection of all that comes against is always necessary.