Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Sri Aurobindo — Sahana Devi

September 5, 1938

What you say is quite the right thing and I understand very well how the movement came.

But I don’t seize how you took what I wrote as an accusation. If N had warned you as he ought to have done and you had given that answer, what would have been wrong in it? It would have been a very desirable thing if there had been somebody who could manage Z. By N’s impression I meant simply that he must have been under the impression that you knew all about Z’s character but that your personality would prove stronger than hers or that you would be able to control her.

It is a pity about the insomnia, but we must still try to put an end to it as soon as possible. With these clinging ailments a persistent force is needful.