Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 1. 1933-34
1933
It is often better to wait for experience and then ask because to form mental notions beforehand does not help, it becomes an obstacle to getting the the real thing – you either remain with the idea only or you get something limited by the idea you have formed, not the force and full action of the power.
The object of the writing should be not to get replies, but to put what passes in you before the Mother and get help – not merely mental but spiritual and psychic.