Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Sri Aurobindo — Sahana Devi

August 25, 1936

About the curtain Mother was thinking that it might be left as it is for the present – unless you have bought the cloth in which case the additional work can be done at once.

You have done rightly about the things. These small desires obstruct greatly the change in the outer consciousness and the being must be free from them if the transformation is not to be hampered there.

The hunger is all right as it is a sign of the body re-covering and wishing to recuperate its strength.

As to Y, X’s disapproval if he has any (he says that he had no intention to hurt you and he had meant the rebufff or her and not for you), is not the important thing. But as she was the occasion of the upset, it may be from the point of view of the play of the forces better to let the connection remain dormant without breaking it. You can abstain from any answer until she of her own accord writes again.