Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Himself and the Ashram
The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Volume 35
Miscellaneous Matters
Household Questions [2]
The door is coming off
because the sill has been removed, for it was only the sill that upheld it. X’s
dealings with the door qua door were scientifically impeccable — the only
thing he forgot was that one of the uses of a door is that people (of various
sizes) should pass through it. If you regard the door from the Russellian point
of view as an external thing in which you must take pleasure for its own sake,
then you will see that it was quite all right; it is only when you bring in
irrelevant subjective considerations like people’s demands on a door and the
pain of stunned heads that objections can be made. However, in spite of
philosophy, the Mother will speak to X in the morning and get him to do
what has (practically, not philosophically) to be done.
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