Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Himself and the Ashram

The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Volume 35

His Life and Attempts to Write about It
On His Published Prose Writings

Passages from The Mother [19]

What is meant by “height” in the phrase “not wideness but height” [p. 42]?

It is very much as we speak of high ideas, high feelings, high aspirations. In that sense Mahakali’s movement is a high, swift action, very effective at the point touched, but not wide, patient, comprehensive like Maheshwari’s.

11 August 1933