Sri Aurobindo
Autobiographical Notes
and Other Writings of Historical Interest
Part Two. Letters of Historical Interest
2.Early Letters on Yoga and the Spiritual Life
1911–1928
To People in America, 1926–1927
To Anna Bogenholm Sloane [1]1
The ARYA Office
Pondicherry French India
August 3, 1926
To
Anna Bogenholm Sloane
Ashirvada.
I have read your letter with great interest and I have
no hesitation after the perusal in acceding to your request and asking you to
come over to India and see me; certain of the experiences 
you relate seem to me very clear and decisive. I presume that, as you
suggest in your letter, you will come prepared to live here for a few years.
For, although the first openings to a higher and larger consciousness – the
experiences called by you initiations – can be very rapid and luminous and
decisive, they have to be followed by a long process of firm and stable
foundation, fuller development, progressive transformation of the nature and a
complete organisation of the new consciousness which involves years of
persistent and vigilant discipline and endeavour.
Please write to me before you start and inform me of
the date of your arrival.