Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
SABCL 26
Fragment ID: 7743
I am surprised at Tagore’s remark1 about the two years; he must have misunderstood or misheard me. I did tell him that I would expand only after making a perfect (inner) foundation here, but I gave no date. I did give that date of two years long before in my letter to B, but I had then a less ample view of the work to be done than I have now – and I am now more cautious about assigning dates than I was once. To fix a precise time is impossible except in the two regions of certitude – the pure material which is the field of mathematical certitudes and the supramental which is the field of divine certitudes. In the planes in between where life has its word to say and things have to evolve under shock and stress. Time and Energy are too much in a flux and apt to kick against the rigour of a prefixed date or programme.
16-8-1931
1 Tagore said to BK that Sri Aurobindo had told him in 1928 that he would “expand” after two years.