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Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1

Letter ID: 186

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

1931 (?)

There is only one answer to Sachin’s question – marriage and Yoga are two different movements going opposite ways; if he follows one, he will be moving away from the other. So if he marries, either of two things will happen – he will sink into the ordinary life and go far away from us in spirit or he will find married life unsatisfactory, renounce his wife and return to the path that leads towards the Divine. Marriage with the first result would be only a stupidity; marriage for the second result would be irrational inconsequence. So in either way – As for the withdrawal of Grace, it might be said that few are those from whom the grace withdraws ...