This third and final volume of letters contains my correspondence with Sri Aurobindo during the fourth and fifth years of sadhana, 1936 and 1937.
Blankness is only a condition in which realisation has to come. If aspiration is needed for that, it has to be used; if the realisation comes of itself, then of course aspiration is not necessary.
To be conscious is the first step towards overcoming — but for the overcoming strength is necessary and also detachment and the will to overcome.
It is not physical science where everything can be analysed and measured or where there are a certain number of processes which can always be repeated at will with an exact mechanical precision
Well, you drew a big part of your lower nature from him [...] There is always a hereditary part of the nature which is a large portion of the outward nature — there is also the educational influence of the father
There is no reason to accept their despair, depression or revolt [...] There is also no reason why one should insist on the sadhana being simple, happy and safe and, if it is not, refuse to follow it.
It is quite true that hardly any try to lead a truly Yogic life [...]
It is a question of doing work in the right attitude — as a means of sadhana. Most take the work as work only.
