November 1936
Disciple: I read your Essays on the Gita twice or thrice before. But when I started reading it again, I found that there were many ideas in it which I had missed before. I think if I read it over and over again I would find newer and newer ideas each time.
Sri Aurobindo: That is a common experience—most books with any profundity of knowledge in them have that effect. Almost all spiritual problems have been briefly but deeply dealt with in the Gita and I have tried to bring out all that fully in the Essays.
14 February 1936
Disciple: Is it true that the deep significance of mantras like “OM Shanti Shanti Shanti” and of words like “paix” in the Mother’s Prayers is lost because of too much familiarity?
Sri Aurobindo: Yes, it must be the familiarity—for I remember when I first read the OM Shanti Shanti Shanti of the Upanishads it had a powerful effect on me. In French it depends on the form or the way in which it is put.
Letters on Himself and The Ashram, CWSA, Sri Aurobindo.
नमस्ते जी 🙏
All Knowledge is Self Knowledge even when found outside in writing or listening it is too Self Pure Infinite Spirit Love and Joy, it is too Divine Grace, the Mother of Universe 🙏