Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Himself and the Ashram

The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Volume 35

Remarks on the Current State of the Sadhana, 1931 – 1947

1935 [32]

You wrote a few days ago: “The difficulties are not likely to cease until they are conquered in {{0}}principle”[[Quoting from memory, the correspondent omitted several words from Sri Aurobindo’s reply of 11 September 1935. — Ed.]] [cf. p. 348].

I do not remember having written “in principle” or if so, there must have been other words also.

A week earlier you wrote: “as almost everybody is down in the physical, it is a little difficult perhaps” [p. 348]. But I was under the impression that some, like X, Y and Z, are always on the intuitive plane.

I am not aware that they or anybody lives constantly on the intuitive plane. All are at grips with the difficulties of the physical consciousness at present — though of course to one like Y the suggestion of revolt cannot come — at least it has never done so up to now.

16 September 1935