Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1937

Letter ID: 2018

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

August 6, 1937

If you have no light, let these poems remain, Sir.

I have plenty of light and to spare.

Why the devil is this sex force descending and ascending so vehemently now, in place of the Supramental?

If people want it..., what else can you expect than that it should rise?

I don’t know what you mean by descending. It is not a high force from above that it should descend – It is a force from below or around.

Judging by the degree of vehemency, shall I say that the Supramental Force is vehemently coming down in this form? Or it is at least some Divine Force, giving a last kick at the Sex Force?

The Divine Force has nothing to do with it. It is the sex and other lower forces that are attacking in order to make it impossible for the Divine Force to do its work, or the Supramental to descend. They hope to prevent it altogether or, if by some miracle, it still descends, to limit its extension and prevent anything more than an individual achievement.