Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1936
After reading your remarks on yesterday’s poem, oh what a joy I felt! In spite of your calling me an “ass”, Sir!
I only made you call somebody else one.
Let me whisper to you that after this Darshan something somehow has happened somewhere to make me cheerful and jolly, though you didn’t seem to have given me a very warm reception – because of my damn cold?
There was no absence of warmth – it may be your cold that made it seem so to you.
And though Mother now and then rolls her eyes, which makes me roll in misery for one or two hours...
Rubbish!
D also says he is very happy. So we both combine to give you this good news. You may congratulate yourself on some tremendous success you have achieved! What’s the secret, Sir? Supramental in view?
Supramental “in view” long ago. To reach is the thing.
Danger zone crossed?
Can’t say that, yet.
Ah, if this joy remains so! will it?
Let us hope so.
I forgot to narrate to you a funny experience I had on Darshan day. Just after darshan, I sat in the Asram for a while, then went home and lay down. From 10 to midday I slept heavily. But throughout those 2 hours, I had the feeling that I’d lose all that I had received at darshan. Suddenly I felt myself sleeping in Ardhendu’s room, listening to kirtan1. But the funny part is that my body seemed to be lying on the bed and another part of me was up and listening to the kirtan. Was it the subtle body? What significance?
Why funny? Quite natural.
Why the deuce do all you people ask always what significance? If you walked out of your house in boots, leaving your slippers or sandals behind, that would be a fact, but with no significance except that you had boots. You went out in your subtle body and listened to the kirtan of the vital plane in Ardhendu’s room, leaving your body to snore (or not) in yours. Quite a common affair, only shows that you have become aware of the boots, i.e. of your subtle body and its exits.