1913

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Prayers and Meditations
June 17, 1913

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(Sri Aurobindo letter to Motilal Roy, c. January 1913:) “... All these [money] matters, as well as the pursuance of my work to which you allude in your last (commercial) letter, depend on the success of the struggle which is the crowning movement of my sadhana — viz the attempt to apply knowledge & power to the events and happenings of the world without the necessary instrumentality of physical action. What I am attempting is to establish the normal working of the siddhis in life i.e. the perception of thoughts, feelings & happenings of other beings & in other places throughout the world without any use of information by speech or any other data. 2nd, the communication of the ideas & feelings I select to others (individuals, groups, nations,) by mere transmission of will-power; 3rd, the silent compulsion on them to act according to these communicated ideas & feelings; 4th, the determining of events, actions & results of action throughout the world by pure silent will power. When I wrote to you last, I had begun the general application of these powers which God has been developing in me for the last two or three years, but, as I told you, I was getting badly beaten. This is no longer the case, for in the 1st, 2nd & even in 3rd I am now largely successful, although the action of these powers is not yet perfectly organized. It is only in the 4th that I feel a serious resistance. I can produce single results with perfect accuracy, I can produce general results with difficulty & after a more or less prolonged struggle, but I can neither be sure of producing the final decisive result I am aiming at nor of securing that orderly arrangement of events which prevents the results from being isolated & only partially effective. In some directions I seem to succeed, in others partly to fail &partly to succeed, while in some fields, e.g., this matter of financial equipment both for my personal life & for my work I have hitherto entirely failed. When I shall succeed even partially in that, then I shall know that my hour of success is at hand & that I have got rid of the past karma in myself & others, which stands in our way & helps the forces of Kaliyuga to baffle our efforts.”

(Amrita:) “I started now frequenting Sri Aurobindo's house. My family members knew nothing of it. I became acquainted with one or two of the inmates — mainly Bejoykanta. He used to send letters twice or thrice per month by registered post — called Poste Recommandée in French — to Chandernagore. As intimacy with him grew, he began to send letters through me. There was no fixed hour for this work. He used to send me at any time between midday and three. He ordered me not to disclose this posting of letters to anyone.
         In Pondicherry there were two post offices in those days: one was French, the other British. The bundle from the French post office would be carried in a small hand-cart with a French policeman escorting it. The bundle would be secured under a seal. It would then be entrusted to the British head post office. Nobody was authorised to handle it until it was delivered to the French post office at Chandernagore. That was why all correspondence of Sri Aurobindo's house would pass through the French post office. The duty of posting letters of Sri Aurobindo's house luckily fell upon me. Now and then, however, the British secret police would persuade the French postal authorities or their subordinates and procure letters addressed to Sri Aurobindo or those coming to V.V.S. Aiyer from Europe, open them and after scrutiny seal them back before handing them over to the postal authorities. At least a strong rumour was current then to this effect.”

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