Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Letters

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Sri Aurobindo — Rene (Aga Syed Yakub)

June 12, 1930

René,

If you were seeking for a way of making it impossible for me to refuse you the money for going away, you have certainly found it this time. After the letter you have written and the accusations it contains, I am bound to give you the Rs.50 you ask for X.

Your share in the family estate, which you demand from Dara, remains untouched; we have not taken it, Dara has not given it to us.

...Dara has given all he had, and he has given it freely, unasked and without claiming anything in return.

As to your other reproaches and accusations, I do not think it is necessary for me to reply. I send you the money you ask for and so fulfil the promise which you so imperatively demand that I should fulfil. I do not send you away or give my sanction for your going; it is for you to decide in all freedom whether you will go or stay. But if you stay, there must be no more reproaches of this kind, since you will be staying entirely by your own free will and under no pressure from us. Nor can I allow the claim you seem to have made that the Mother must do what you want and she must not say to you or do anything that does not please you. That is ‘‘elation which is not allowed to others and it can not be allowed to you either. The Mother has shown you every possible favour and kindness; more she cannot do.

Sri Aurobindo