Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Sri Aurobindo — Chinmayi

January 19, 1931

Chinmayi,

It will be perhaps better after all if you write a word to Jafar Hasan. You might tell him that you wrote your first letter under the impulse of a wish to go to Hyderabad for a time, but after posting it you felt that your real life was in the Ashram and you should not leave it,– and you are sending him this word so that he may not come to take you and go b disappointed, although you will always be glad to see him if at any time comes here.

Do not despond or be discouraged; if you persevere, there can be doubt that the permanent change will come. But be more resolute hereafter not to listen to the suggestions of these forces whom you know to the enemies of your own soul and of your quiet and happiness, no hostile to you than to us and our work; especially, do not shut yourself the Mother’s help for any reason whatever, and never do what these for tell you to do; this shutting yourself up against help is the great mist you make when you are in this trouble. For some time you resisted their suggestions, and then we found it much easier to help you and to minimize or shorten their attacks. If you persevere in that uninterruptedly their power of attack will diminish, and then the time will come when can make it cease altogether.

Our force is always with you to aid you; it is for you to keep your open always to it and to us that it may conquer.

Sri Aurobindo