Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 35

Fragment ID: 9459

Women in the Ashram [4]

I return your husband’s letters. I do not think we can build much on his desire to know about Yoga. He wishes for reasons of a mixed nature to dissuade you from leaving the domestic life and that is the main thing behind both the criticising and the conciliatory elements in his letters. Your own position is clear and it is what I suppose you have expressed already – you are sure of your own feeling and purpose and confidence in my leading, but you see no good in subjecting it to intellectual discussion. Yoga and spirituality rest on the soul’s intuition and the need of the inner nature, not on the reasoning of the surface intelligence.

circa 1933