Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Letters

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Sri Aurobindo — The Mother, Paul Richard

September 16, 1919

To the Mother and Paul Richard [4]

I have begun in the issue of the Arya which is just out a number of articles on the Ideal of Human Unity. I intend to proceed very cautiously and not go very deep at first, but as if I were leading the intelligence of the reader gradually towards the deeper meaning of unity,– especially to discourage the idea that mistakes uniformity and mechanical association for unity.

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Nothing seems able to disturb the immobility of things and all that is active outside our own selves is a sort of welter of dark and sombre confusion from which nothing formed or luminous can emerge. It is a singular condition of the world, the very definition of chaos with the superficial form of the old world resting apparently intact on the surface. But a chaos of long disintegration or of some early new birth? It is the thing that is being fought out from day to day, but as yet without any approach to a decision.

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These periods of stagnation always conceal work below the surface which produces some advance afterwards.

16 September 1915