Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II

Unknown Recipient

He can come, if he understands the conditions under which alone he can profit by staying here.

Henceforth a stay here can only be possible

1) for those who are ready for an intensive sadhana turning their back on all attachments belonging to the ordinary human life;

2) for those who though not ready yet recognise fully the aim and open themselves so as to prepare for it;

3) those who, even if not capable as yet of an inner intensive sadhana, can yet dedicate themselves entirely in the way of service.

July-August 1927

Sri Aurobindo

My mother is very much aggrieved over my intention of coming away to the Ashram. I am not touched by her grief. But I do not know if it is due to non-attachment or my hard-heartedness. What is the correct attitude?

As he has chosen the spiritual life and work for the Mother, he has only to remain firm and quiet and for the rest to leave it to the Divine power. His indifference is nothing but this quietness and firmness in the true way and he has not to weaken it by any emotional scruples.

26 December 1927

Sri Aurobindo

It is all nonsense about C's keeping up his power and position. It is the Mother who has put him there in control of the work (power) under her directions and gave him his position, and she would not be at all pleased if he did not keep up the position she has given him. As for egoism have you and others none? One ought to be free from egoism oneself before one can blame others for having it. What a sadhak should do is to be busy with getting rid of his own ego. To be busy with observing and resenting the ego of others can only raise and increase his own and prevent him from getting rid of it.

29 May 1928

Sri Aurobindo

It is quite impossible to turn the Ashram into a sanitorium. It is understood that apart from the use of medicines as an occasional and quite subordinate expedient, those who live here should be sufficiently open mentally, — psychically, and physically to the spiritual force to recover rapidly from attacks of illness and to keep a sufficient power of life and health in them not to need to be treated as chronic invalids. Any other rule would make the existence of the Ashram impossible.

Sri Aurobindo

Keep faith and confidence and remain cheerful.

2 September 1928

The Mother