Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 727

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

April 4, 1936

Your conversation with Saurin seems to have had some effect. Mother has said she will give him his chance and he is to come for Pranam tomorrow.

As for Maya, she did write about coming here in August, but we saw no reason to encourage her. Mother does not feel at all sure that she can stay. When she is there, she pants under the weight of Shankar and longs for Pondicherry; when she is here she pants for Shankar and longs for Barrackpore. At any rate Mother is positive about this that if she comes, she must stay in a separate house with her own arrangements, not in the Trésor [Dilip’s house] nor in the Ashram. That is all the push I can give you at present on that matter, it is not very rosy, but – well. It is better to begin with grey and blossom into rose like the Biblical wilderness than to follow the opposite process.