Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

SABCL 26

Fragment ID: 8057

Q: If the pressure here has an effect on the outside world in some way, have incidents happening here any connection with outside happenings? For example, I noted that on the day X and Y went from here the Italians finally conquered Abyssinia. There is a story of an occultist in Ahmedabad (in the 16th century or so) in which it is related that he was making and unmaking mats and accordingly the wall round the city which was built during the day fell down during the night – the time when he was taking away the chips of the mat.

A: The story of the occultist contains a truth, and it would be a mistake to suppose that there is no connection between the pressure here and outside happenings. But I don’t know about particular coincidences. The departure of X and Y does not seem easily relatable to the event in Abyssinia.

10-10-1936