Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
2. The Mother, Sri Aurobindo and the Integral Yoga
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Many years ago, the Mother wrote regarding life in the Asram: “In our daily practices we are endeavouring to express the great mystery of the Divine Incarnation.”1 I pray that this message may be explained to me – and that I be enabled to understand its meaning fully and clearly.
It means that we act as we do because we take it as a fact that the Divine can manifest and is manifested in a human body.
Is this a message which can be circulated to all the members of the Asram?
Yes, they ought to know it.
To outsiders?
Not unless they are interested and seek the meaning of what we do.
I am also eager to know whether in my occupations at Madras, professionally and otherwise, I can pursue the life outlined in the message? Whether this message has any relation to such a life as mine?
Yes, of course, it applies to everybody who accepts the fundamental truth on which Mother based what she wrote.
29 December 1933
1 The Mother, “Words of the Mother – III” (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2004), Collected Works of the Mother (second edition), vol. 15, p. 32.