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failings, if they are denied, then nothing can be done. Or, rather,
nothing will be done; for the attempt in such circumstances might
lead to a breaking rather than a divine building of the nature, or
even there might be a reception of hostile forces instead of the true
light and power. This is the law of the relation on the spiritual plane:
the consent of the disciple must be at every moment free, but his
confidence, if given, must be complete and the submission to the
guidance absolute.
This is the one real issue that your recent development has
raised between us. The rising of some doubts would in itself have
been of little importance; doubt is the very nature of the ignorant
physical mind. But yours have very evidently risen because you
have taken a turn away from the path to the supramental realisa-
tion along which the Mother was helping you and admitted an-
other occult influence. This is shown by the nature of your doubts
where you question her knowledge of certain common experiences
of Yoga and by your conclusion that she can no longer help you. I
pass by your pretensions to gauge her knowledge and experience;
her dealings with you and others proceed from a consciousness to
which the mental understanding and judgment have not the key.
But when the doubt and questioning go so far, it is because some-
thing in the vital nature begins to be unwilling to accept any longer
the guidance; for the guidance is likely to interfere with its going on
its own way.
I could not accede under any circumstances to your request to
me to substitute my instruction and guidance for the Mother's. If
you cannot receive help from her any longer, it is evident that you
cannot receive it either from me; for the same Power and the same
Knowledge act through both of us. I have no intention of taking a
step which would bring down the work to the personal human level
and would be a direct contradiction of its divine origin and nature.
CWSA 36: 391-92 Sri Aurobindo

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