Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Himself and the Ashram

The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Volume 35

Help and Guidance

Utility of Correspondence [21]

Everyone thinks that as soon as you read our letters we get the necessary help. In my own case I get relief only after Mother’s touch at Pranam. Prayers are not heard then?

It depends on how far the inner being is awake — otherwise one needs a physical avalambana. There are some people who get the relief only after we read a letter, others get it immediately they write or before it has reached us or after it has reached but before we have read. Others get it simply by referring the whole matter to us mentally. Idiosyncracies!

20 March 1935