Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Sri Aurobindo — Sahana Devi

February 9, 1933

You can tell C that she must not be discouraged or take this failure – whatever its cause – as final, but rather remain calm with a steady and one-pointed will and take this check as an ordeal and a call for a greater concentration and a more complete self-consecration of the nature. Even the worst obstacles in the end disappear before a will that never falters.

I do not understand why there should be a mystery about the reason for her not coming – so that she cannot even inform the Mother. If it is police pressure, it is still more incomprehensible. All kinds of people come here from Government officials to men who have gone to jail for non-cooperation and the police never had anything to say in the matter. Why should there be an insuperable obstacle of this kind in the case of C?