Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
3. The Mother and the Practice of the Integral Yoga
Fragment ID: 19331
The suggestion that the pressure of sadhana is unbearable has got fixed in my mind, particularly after reading in two places that those whose nerves are weak are better off living outside the Ashram. One place is in one of your letters, and another in the Conversations, where the Mother says: “You must have a strong body and strong nerves.... If you have to bear the pressure of the Divine Descent, you must be very strong and powerful, otherwise you would be shaken to pieces.”1 Are these things applicable to me?
These things refer to beginners who are not open and have not a fit Adhar, yet want to do the sadhana.
Your body is not weak and you have considerable vital strength. Moreover you have the openness to the Force and the habit of receiving it, and there is no reason why there should be any upsetting by the Force. It is not the Force, but the suggestion of these vital Forces that produces the upsetting.
7 September 1936
1 The Mother,“ Conversations 1929 – 1931” (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2003 ), p. 11.