Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

5. On Three Works of the Mother

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The Mother says in her prayer of 31 July 1914 that spiritual experience is willed (“elle est consciente, voulue” [p. 231]) by the Divine. Am I then to suppose that the dearth or abundance of experiences in any given case is willed by the Divine?

To say so has no value unless you realise all things as coming from the Divine. One who has realised as the Mother had realised in the midst of terrible sufferings and difficulties that even these came from the Divine and were preparing her for her work can make spiritual use of such an attitude. For others it may lead to wrong conclusions.

10 May 1934