Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

5. On Three Works of the Mother

Fragment ID: 20240

“Spiritual experience means the contact with the Divine in oneself (or without, which comes to the same thing in that domain)” [p. 17]. What is meant by the Divine “without”? Does it mean the cosmic Divine or the transcendental Divine or both?

It means the Divine seen outside in things, beings, events etc. etc.

Was Jeanne d’Arc’s nature transformed even a little because of her relation with the two archangels, the two beings of the Overmind? [pp. 17 – 18]

I don’t see how the question of transformation comes in. Jeanne d’Arc was not practising Yoga or seeking transformation.

5 January 1937