16th May, 1939 A letter from a disciple received on the 29th April written to co-disciple here spoke of his experience at Tiruannamalai. He mentioned in his letter that the resistance in his physical being was broken by the spiritual experience he had there. In the evening a disciple asked Sri Aurobindo: "What Page – 226  do you think of his saying that the resistance in the physical is gone?" Sri Aurobindo : I have heard people saying that the body of Maharshi is shaking. How could he have done what he did not do, or did not care to do, for himself, for someone else? Disciple : But he describes his experience in detail : for instance, the triangle a

FEBRUARY 1940 23 February, 1940 Disciple : The world is Swayambhu – self-existent – according to Jainism. God can't have created world because he lacks motive. Sri Aurobindo : Do you create because you are unhappy? Nirod writes poetry because he is miserable? Disciple : No, to get more joy. Sri Aurobindo : He is then full of joy and wants more. Disciple : If God has not created the world, you can't get his help in liberation. Disciple : In Jainism each one gets liberation by his own effort. Even Tirthankars don't help. Sri Aurobindo : Of what use are they? Disciple : He is like an example. It is Shasan Devatas who are worshippers of Tir

15th January, 1939 Sri Aurobindo opened the topic by referring to a letter from an American. Sri Aurobindo : There is a job which perhaps "X : " would like to attend to. The letter is addressed to Sri Aurobindo Ashram under the belief that it is a person. The man wants sporting items, and "predictions". He says : Page – 123  As you are a Yogi you "can go into trance" and we will share the profits!! Let me know your terms. Then he says : "If you don't want to take the money, you can give it to the poor! (turning to X.). You        can go into trance or send "Y" into it. I will be a hard nut. I have no objections to sharing profits, only we share in profi