Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 834

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

September 1936 (?)

... I received a letter from Subho Tagore’s intimate friend M. B. who writes that Subho Tagore and Harm are starting a campaign of vilification against the Ashram and you and Mother.... Why not use your Rudra power Guru, and let us verify and enjoy this noble vision of a yogic auto-da-fe?...

The pathetic last conversation between Harin and Subho is truly amusing. But I fear there is no chance of the auto-dafe. I have dropped using the Rudra power – its effects used to be too catastrophic and now from a long disuse the inclination to use it has become rusty. Not that I am a convert to Satyagraha and Ahimsa – but Himsa too has its inconvenience. So the fires sleep.