{"id":1661,"date":"2013-07-13T01:36:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T08:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2013-11-28T15:19:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T23:19:26","slug":"26-the-early-years-in-pondicherry-1910-1926-vol-35-letters-on-himself-and-the-ashram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/35-letters-on-himself-and-the-ashram\/26-the-early-years-in-pondicherry-1910-1926-vol-35-letters-on-himself-and-the-ashram","title":{"rendered":"-26_The Early Years in Pondicherry 1910 – 1926.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\t\tSection Two<\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n<\/font><\/b>
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\nSadhana in Pondicherry<\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t1910 <\/b>– 1950<\/b><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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\n
\nThe Early Years in Pondicherry <\/font><\/b>
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n
\n1910 <\/b>–
\n1926 <\/b>
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n
\n 
\n<\/b>
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nSitting on the Path?
\n<\/b> <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n\tIt is not clear what your Guru meant by my sitting on the path;
\nthat could have been true of the period between 1915 and 1920 when I was writing the
\nArya<\/i>, but the sadhana and the work
\nwere waiting for the Mother’s coming. In 1923 or 1924 I could not be described as sitting on the path, so far as the sadhana was
\nconcerned, but it may perhaps be only a metaphor or symbol for the outward form of the work not yet being ready. The
\nstatement about my having gone too high to redescend for work in the world was made in almost the identical terms by another
\nYogi also; it referred to my condition at the time and cannot be taken as anything more.
\n\t<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n
\n16 September 1935 <\/font> <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t 
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nSeeking the Way
\n<\/b>
\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tX <\/span> <\/i>seems to have told Y <\/i>that the old sadhaks, who were here before the Mother took up the work in 1926, had many experiences of Cosmic Consciousness, etc., meaning to convey that their sadhana was much better and more serious than what
\npeople are doing now. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t 
\n <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n\tBefore the Mother came all were living in the mind with only
\nsome mental realisations and experiences. The vital and everything else were unregenerated and the psychic behind the veil.
\nI am not aware that anyone of them at that time entered the cosmic consciousness. At that time I was still seeking my way
\nfor the transformation and the passage to the supramental (all the part of the Yoga that goes beyond the ordinary Vedanta)
\nand acted very much on a principle of laissez faire <\/i>with the few sadhaks who were there.
\nX <\/i>is one of those who have never
\nceased regretting that laissez faire <\/i>\u2014  he regrets the vital liberty and absence of discipline they then had.
\n\t<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n
\n27 July 1934  
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n 
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