Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 887

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

1936 (?)

Raihana writes Padmaja has told a friend others that hypnotising, etc. is agog in the Ashram. Raihana has indignantly told her friend it is all lie. What a detestable woman this Padmaja, eh?

She is herself – as for her attitude it is the result of a quarrel with Dara who was imprudent enough to try to propagandize her. The “hypnotising” is the usual parrot patter of those who do not want to admit any such thing as a spiritual influence. One might just as well say that Gandhi has hypnotised India – that a mental, moral or temperamental influence is a thing they are familiar with though they don’t understand in the least what it is, so it is admitted.