Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
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“From beauty to greater beauty, from joy to intenser joy, by a special
adjustment of the senses” – yes, that would be the normal course of a divine manifestation, however gradual, in Matter. “Discordant sound and offensive odour” are creations of a disharmony between consciousness and Nature and do not exist in themselves, they would not be present in
a liberated and harmonised consciousness
for they would be foreign to its being, nor would they afflict a rightly
developing harmonised soul and Nature. Even the “belching volcano, crashing
thunderstorm and whirling typhoon” are in themselves grandiose and beautiful
things and only harmful or terrible
to a consciousness unable to meet or deal with them or make a pact with the spirits of Wind
and Fire. You are assuming that the manifestation from the Inconscient must be what it is now and here and that no other kind of world of Matter was possible, but the harmony of material Nature in itself shows that it need not necessarily be a discordant, evil, furiously perturbed and painful creation – the psychic being if allowed to manifest from the first in Life and Mind and lead
the evolution instead of being re-legated behind the veil would have been the principle of a harmony
outflowing
; everyone who has felt the psychic at work within him, free
from the vital intervention, can at once see that this would be its effect because of its unerring perception, true choice, harmonic action. If it has not been so, it is because the dark Powers have 
made life a claimant instead of an instrument. The reality of the Hostiles and the nature of their role and trend of their endeavour cannot be doubted by any one who has had his inner vision unsealed and made their unpleasant acquaintance.
1937
Current publication:
[Largest or earliest found passage: ] Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Savitri.- First edition 1950-1951. First American edition 1995.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1995.- ISBN 0-941524-80-9
Other publications:
Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga // SABCL.- Volume 22. (≈ 28 vol. of CWSA).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1971.- 502 p.
Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga. I // CWSA.- Volume 28. (≈ 22 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2012.- 590 p.