Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Himself and the Ashram
The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Volume 35
Admission, Staying, Departure
Departure from the Ashram [20]
I have written to {{0}}X[[The recipient of
the preceding letter. Ed.]] to set right any misunderstanding if there
is really a misunderstanding about our consent to her going. That consent I
consider as forced from me by her own insistence that she could not stay the
pull was too great she must go. 
I reminded her
of what I told her before that the only true way was to stay and fight out the
difficulty the only justification for going would be if her call was more to
the family life than to the spiritual life. I have told her that we keep to that
and the Mother and I do not like her going and asked her to reconsider her
decision. For it is hers not mine. You know that I dislike any one who has a
psychic call going away from here, because it is throwing away their spiritual
destiny or at least postponing it. For I dont suppose X, if she persists
in going, will remain always under the illusion of the family bonds but the
risk is there and the postponement is there. Mother has called her tomorrow
morning and we will see what she decides.
28 August 1934