Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Himself and the Ashram
The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Volume 35
Mantras and Messages
Traditional Mantra Japa [3]
It is very good news that you got rid of the attack and
it was the japa that helped you to do it. This and past experience also shows
that if you can overcome the old association of the japa with sterility and sorrow, it can do its natural function of creating
the right consciousness — for that is what the japa is intended to do. It first
changes the vibrations of the consciousness, brings into it the right state and
the right responses and then brings in the power or the presence of the Deity.
Several times before you wrote to me that by doing japa you got rid of the old
impulse and recovered calm and the right turn of the consciousness and now it
has helped you to get rid of the invasion of sorrow and despondency. Let us hope
that this last will also soon lose its strength like the impulse and calm and
serenity begin to establish itself in the whole nature.
8 October 1936