Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 883

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

December 17, 1936

Well, I have written an ecstatic poetic protest of astrology. I have not yet got your letter – Nolini is typing it. But tell me what do you think of this non-descript original poem? A new vein at least, what?

Yes, and it is very good too.

N.B. The ecstasy may be an ecstasy of pain thanks to humiliation which causes us to be underlings but nevertheless an ecstasy it is, what?

Well, one of the greatest ecstasies possible is to feel oneself carried by the Divine – not by the stars or Karma, for the latter is a bad business, dry and uncomfortable – like being turned on a machine, “yantrārūḍhāni māyayā”.) yantrāūd¹

¹ The Lord is stationed in the heart of all existences, O Arjuna, and turns them all round and round mounted on a machine by his Maya. [Gita, 18.61 // Essays on the Gita p. 522, Cent. Ed.].

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