must take account if you want to get the exact measure of my reasoning and its significance.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
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The Avatar and the Earth Consciousness [3]
I did not mean that anyone here could replace or equal myself and the Mother, much less the persons you name – or the actual Muthu equal the actual Ramakrishna. But certainly it is possible for X and Y and Z (I won’t repeat the names) to change, to throw off their present perversities or limitations and come nearer to us than they are now – if they have the sincere will and make the endeavour. I have explained my meaning to X1 – so I do not repeat it here. Of course in my writing to X, there is a certain note of persiflage and humorous insistence of which you must take account if you want to get the exact measure of my reasoning and its significance.
10 February 1935
1 The disciple to whom the letters of 9 and 10 February 1935 on pages 402–10 were written. – Ed.