Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

SABCL 26

Fragment ID: 8054

Q: One X has written a book in which he says that your “language” has been responsible for creating confusion etc. Y seems to have written to him about this and got a reply that he has not been satisfied with your philosophy nor with any of your disciples whom he has seen, but that he may change his views if he gets a quarter of an hour’s talk with you. So far has he understood the “Arya” that some years back when I had asked him what was Supermind, he had replied that it was something like power of clairvoyance! I had laughed in my sleeves at his being considered a good thinker.

A: Well, there seems evidently to be a confusion in his ideas about my philosophy though what has been responsible for creating it – well, it is perhaps the goodness of his thinking! I fear the pleasure and honour of having a quarter of an hour’s talk with the Yogi X is too high a thing for me to wish to attain to it in this life. I must try to obtain pūṇya first and strive to be born again in order to deserve it.

13-4-1935