Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 35

Fragment ID: 9306

The Supramental Evolution, the Ashram and the Hostile Forces [4]

I have something to ask about your letter [of 8 November 1933] about the hostile forces. You write that they are “out of place here in this sadhana”. But you go on to say that attacks continue because “the sadhaks open themselves to them, out of habit,... out of passive response and unresisting inertia”. Please explain all this more clearly. Do you mean that the forces that were obstructing the sadhaks have been destroyed?

There is no question of destruction. There is only the question of their exclusion from the Asram. The things enumerated are not causes of the attacks, but they are the occasion, the weakness in the sadhaks that allows them when they could very well be dismissed. The hostile forces are there in the world to maintain the Ignorance – they were there in the sadhana because they had the right to test the sincerity of the sadhaks and their power and will to cleave to the Divine and overcome all difficulties. But this is only so long as the higher Light has not descended into the physical – now it is descending, it is sufficiently there for anyone to receive it more and more fully, so that the way becomes smooth and open, a progressive development and not a struggle.

10 November 1933