Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1937

Letter ID: 1980

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

June 25, 1937

I told you long ago that K is hale and hearty and that was the miracle: no fever, nothing at all. You said that according to our diagnosis you expected him to be in Paradise; I said no, not so early, but in a hell of suffering etc.; that’s all. That grey hepatisation troubled you, eh?

Naturally, if you say that a fellow who is supposed to be hale and hearty, is brown and grey with a mysterious hepatisation and suffering a hell of agony and not yet in Paradise!

... Please help me to a higher consciousness. Where is the higher Being that I had met with? I seem to have lost everything.

Everything once gained is there and can be regained. Yoga is not a thing that goes by one decisive rush one way or the other – it is a building up of a new consciousness and is full of ups and downs. But if one keeps to it the ups have a habit of resulting by accumulation in a decisive change – therefore the one thing to do is to keep at it. After a fall don’t wail and say I’m done for, but get up, dust yourself and proceed farther on the right path.