Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Himself and the Ashram

The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Volume 35

Life and Death in the Ashram

Death [2]

Though you may say that death is possible because illness hasn’t been conquered, I take it as a principle. X and myself firmly believe that those whom you have accepted are absolutely immune to death.

[Underlining “accepted”:] Too comfortable a doctrine. It brings in a very tamasic syllogism. “I am accepted by Sri Aurobindo. I am sure of supramentality and immune from death. Therefore I need not do a damned thing. Supramentality will of itself grow in me and I am already immortal, so I have all time and eternity before me for it to happen — of itself.” Like that, does it sound true?

27 March 1935