Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume I - Part 5

Fragment ID: 10720

The telegram announces the passing away of your husband.

All has been done that could be done to keep him in life. What has happened must now be accepted calmly as the thing decreed and best for his soul’s progress from life to life though not the best in human eyes which look only at the present and at outside appearance. For the spiritual seeker death is only a passage from one form of life to another, and none is dead but only departed. Look at it as that and shaking from you all reactions of vital grief – they cannot help him in his journey,– pursue steadfastly the path to the Divine.