Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Sri Aurobindo — Sahana Devi

May 2, 1934

Well, if all is right in you, then it is all right. Obviously, too, if you have no needs which are not met by the Mother and no fancies for yourself to which you do not yield, then there is no need of the two rupees monthly.

As to the bazar biscuits, I was putting our view of it, that is all. Yours, as you put it in your letter, does not seem to me the right one.

I, repeat that we do not object to your writing –whether it be poetry or short stories or novels. What we felt was that this kind of total absorption and possession by it was not good for your spiritual condition and that it put a lesser thing in front, even occupying the whole front of the consciousness for most of the time instead of putting it in its proper place in a sound spiritual harmony.