Disciple: Why did you choose Pondicherry as the place for your Sadhana?
Sri Aurobindo: Because it was by an Adesh — command from Above — I was asked to come here. When I was leaving Bombay for Calcutta I asked Lele what I should do regarding my Sadhana. He kept silent for some time [probably waiting to hear a voice from the heart] and replied, “Meditate at a fixed time and hear the voice in the heart.”
I did not hear the voice from the heart, but a different voice and I dropped meditation at a fixed time because meditation was going on all the time. When Lele came to Calcutta and heard about it, he said that the devil had caught hold of me. I said, “If it is the devil, I will follow him.”
EVENING TALKS WITH SRI AUROBINDO
RECORDED BY A B PURANI (10-12-1938)
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