Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 768

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

June 26, 1936

(Dilipda’s note:) My experience was this: I felt depressed but while talking with the Maharani about Yoga my doubts disappeared and I found I had a firm faith in yoga. So I asked Sri Aurobindo if I was sincere when I talked so convincingly of Yoga while still in doubt?

There was no make up in your talk with the Maharani. That happens to everybody. It is that part of the consciousness [that] comes up which not only believes these things, but knows them to be true; the other part which is deprived and open to doubt and denial takes a back seat or goes under-ground. People don’t understand this multitudinous business in human personality, so they call it insincerity in themselves or others. But it is not so. There are certain beliefs and feelings that something in our nature holds on to with a firm grip and storms and despondencies only cover but do not destroy them.