Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Letters

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Sri Aurobindo — Chinmayi

Undated

A great misunderstanding has taken place.

You seem to believe that I say one thing when I mean another. This is absurd.

When I speak, I speak plainly and always mean what I say.

When I say: the first condition for yoga is to keep quiet and calm mean it.

When I say that talk is useless and leads only to confusion, waste energy and loss of the little light one may have – I mean that and nothing else.

When I say that I have given nobody the right to speak in my name and to interpret my words according to his own fancy, I mean that and nothing else.

I hope that this is clear and decisive and this singular misunderstand will now come to an end.