Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Correspondence (1933-1967)
Letter ID: 51
Sri Aurobindo — Nahar, Prithwi Singh
September 13, 1936
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. Chhinnamasta1 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.
Sri Aurobindo
1 Chhinnamasta: a headless Kali, one of the ten Mahavidyas or Tantric aspects of the Mother.