Don’t know. Provided no sadhak interprets my pattings as blows and cries “Why did you thrash me, Sir?”Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 1. 1935
Letter ID: 1400
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
August 19, 1935
It appears you have made many people happy at this Darshan in spite of their oscillations, sitting contentedly on their mud thrones. My discontented self is one of that happy group!
Well, one can be happy in a swing or even in the mud! The perfect sadhak should indeed be happy in all circumstances, সর্ৱথা ৱর্তমানো’পি1 as the Gita puts it.
We wonder and wonder how, all on a sudden, you have melted so visibly, tangibly and manifestly. What is it that could melt you so as to give us a patting during darshan?
It is my mathematical discovery – don’t seek for any other cause – my grand new, brand-new mathematical formula.
Divine Love concretising itself? or the Divine himself elated at the thought of an impending big deal?
What great expectations! Besides I’m not Roosevelt. I am only going ahead, therefore visibly cheerful though not yet demonstratively exuberant.
But whatever it may be, if you keep up this patting, Sir, at every Darshan, our repinings will disappear. Don’t you think so?
Don’t know. Provided no sadhak interprets my pattings as blows and cries “Why did you thrash me, Sir?”
1 sarvathā vartamāno’pi: in all conditions or states of the being.