I must have forgotten to send you my reply about O. C. Ganguli1. I did not want to discourage his visit,– he can come, if he does not mind being uncomfortable, and you can so tell him.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 1
Letter ID: 164
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
October 11, 1931
I must have forgotten to send you my reply about O. C. Ganguli1. I did not want to discourage his visit,– he can come, if he does not mind being uncomfortable, and you can so tell him.
Don’t worry about the pressure; it is a good sign, not a bad one, and simply means that the Power is working to open that supremely important centre.
Also don’t worry about the perspiration; it is a phenomenon we have all had at certain stages of the Yoga, the heat also. The old style would have said it was the Yoga fire waking to purify the body of obstructive impurities and incapacities, and it was after all not an incorrect explanation and a fairly adequate expression.
You must really get rid of this idea that you are imagining things like the silence and wideness; an experience is not untrue because it is vague. If it is vague at first, it will deepen and intensify afterwards; but it must be affirmed and accepted, not denied and doubted. The “Essay on Doubt” will be written, never fear; but I have no time for it just now.
Keep your waking consciousness as pure as possible; the dreams will then get discouraged in the end. The subconscious always takes time to clear altogether.
1 A well-known critic of Indian art of the times.