Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 35

Fragment ID: 9464

Children in the Ashram [3]

You will reply to him that for himself and X and Y permission can always be given whenever they want to come – but the children are too young. It is a rule of the Asram departed from only in rare cases, where there is something exceptional, that they cannot be admitted inside the Asram before they are 10 years old – for before that they are too young to bear or assimilate the forces of the atmosphere – at least under present conditions. When people on their own responsibility bring children and stay in a house outside the Asram then the Mother allows it, but she takes no responsibility for them and they are not allowed to come for Darshan or Pranam or even inside the Asram.

25 January 1934