Letters on the integral yoga, other spiritual paths, the problems of spiritual life, and related subjects.
Integral Yoga
Letters on subjects including 'The Supramental Evolution', 'Integral Yoga and Other Paths', 'Religion, Morality, Idealism and Yoga', 'Reason, Science and Yoga', 'Planes and Parts of the Being', 'The Divine and the Hostile Powers', 'The Purpose of Avatarhood' and 'Rebirth, Fate and Free-Will, Karma and Heredity'. Sri Aurobindo wrote most of these letters in the 1930s to disciples living in his ashram.
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I am not aware that highly evolved personalities have no sense of humour or how the person can be said to be integrated when this sense is lacking. "Looseness" applies only to a frivolous levity without any substance behind it. There is no law that wisdom should be something rigidly solemn and without a smile.
Sense of humour? It is the salt of existence. Without it the world would have got utterly out of balance—it is unbalanced enough already—and rushed to blazes long ago.
People are exceedingly silly—but I suppose they can't help themselves. The more I see of humanity, the more that forces
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itself on me. The abysses of silliness of which its mind is capable....
My opinion is that Allah is great and great is the mystery of the universe and things are not what they seem, etc.
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