Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 4

Letter ID: 974

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

August 9, 1943

Your answer “no” to Cohayne’s offer to transfer legally his possessions prompts me to ask you again a question or two as I have to reply to him. What shall I write? Have you really accepted him? I ask this as I have to proceed on that basis. Or if you want to see him once shall I ask him to come for few days in this darshan or November so that you may form a judgment of his capacities? Or shall I write to him to send say some monthly contributions (as much as he can conveniently spare) as a spiritual concentrating on Mother and yourself so that things will progress till he can come here profitably for a darshan. I am a little in the dark as to whether you regard him as a would-be disciple – for he, evidently, considers himself a disciple of yours already. Qu’en dites-vous? Sorry to trouble you but you seel am a little bit in a difficulty – can’f assure him of your support, etc. without your express consent.

Up to now he has not been either accepted or rejected; he is being given his chance. Of course Mother doesn’t want to accept his offer of his property; that could happen, if at all, only much later on, that is, if he stood the test and became a real disciple and progressed very much in his Yoga. Also, there is something morbid in his vital (his letters about himself give that impression). Mother did not want him to be here at present, but that does not mean that he is rejected. All this however should not be told to him, as it might interfere with his chance. For instance the will to give his property or by feeling that internally he has offered it, may help his progress, even though externally it cannot be accepted now.