Undated 1958
When the hostile forces want to attack those around me but do not succeed in making them overtly hostile to Sri Aurobindo’s work or in making them turn against me personally, they always use the same tactic, with the same argument: ‘You may have all the inner realizations you want,’ they say, ‘the most beautiful experiences possible inside your four Ashram walls, but as far as the outer world is concerned, your life is wasted, lost. There is an abyss you will never bridge between your inner experience and a concrete realization in the world.’
This is the number one argument of the hostile forces. I know it well – for millions of years I have been hearing them say the same thing over and over again, and each time I unmask them. It is a lie, it is THE Lie. All that seeks to establish a divorce between the Earth and the Spirit, all that separates the inner experience from
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the divine realization in the world is good for their purpose. But just the opposite is true! It is the inner realization that is the key to the outer realization. How can you possibly know the true thing you have to realize in the world as long as you do not possess the truth of your being?
* Note written by Mother in English (with a touch of irony so reminiscent of Sri Aurobindo).
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