Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

4. The Mother in the Life of the Ashram

Fragment ID: 19968

It is the inner nearness that matters. The idea of the mind – quite natural, of course – that the outer closeness is the sign of the relation or a special favour or the means of rapid progress is not borne out by experience. There are some who see the Mother daily and are very little advanced from what they were years ago – there were others who got worse because it fostered the vital demand in them – on the other hand there are some quite close to the Mother and forward on the path and cherished by her who come to her only very occasionally – and I could instance one case in which there is an interview only once a year, yet there is no one who has made more rapid progress or in whom the love relation has grown to a greater intensity and fervour. In all these things it is best to have an entire confidence in the Mother and the light that guides her.

10 December 1933