At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo

12 November 1933

MYSELF: My dear Mother, I am well, I am happy but with a vital joy, for I talked a lot — the aftermath of suffering, as it were. Your affection has filled me up. The whole Ashram came to know I was on the point of leaving. What a drama! And a total shrinking! Now the approach of the 24th’s Darshan fills me with joy. How I was caught by what Sri Aurobindo calls the ‘black being’!

SRI AUROBINDO: At any rate you know now and can be on your guard — so that lessens his chance.

As the moment of the possibility of the supramental Descent grows nearer, these forces have become more eager to keep their hold in the Asram atmosphere and break the sadhana of anyone they can touch. Their main aim is to get as many as possible to leave the Asram, so that they may not share in the descent and so that the descent itself may be delayed and disturbed by a constant tempest in the atmosphere. That is why I put the notice suggesting that the sadhaks should not admit these forces and need not. To be on one’s guard and admit no violent and irrational movements, to be calm and persistent in faith and self-opening to us is all that is needed.

(12.11.33)