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Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1934 — 1935

Letter ID: 638

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

October 30, 1935

But I have already told you more than once that I have no objection to your seeking Krishna or to your asking for Ananda or milan [union] or anything else. I have never pressed you or others either to search after supermind or to accept me as an Avatar. These things have risen as an answer to questions put by yourself or others and I have treated them as matters of knowledge. But each must go by his own way and his own nature to his own goal. Ahaitukī bhakti [motiveless devotion] according to the Vaishnava ideal is the highest way and also the quickest, but if one does not feel equal to it, sahaitukī [motivated] bhakti will do well enough. Or if one has no turn for bhakti at all, there are plenty of other ways. Or if one does not care to follow any way, there is, as I said, in answer to Dhurjati’s question, the pressure of something in the nature to find the Self, if that is what it is after, or God or Krishna or the Mother or whatever it may be.

If you know the urge in you, well, follow it straight – there is no need of questioning or going this side or that. Follow the heart’s urge till it reaches what it is seeking.