No, it was not because “he considers himself too great”. It is probably the same reason for which Jung did not meet Ramana Maharshi: Jung had his own path, and his call was for the West to awaken, he did not want to cross on the other side. In 1976 I spent six months reading Jung day and night, fascinated; I did not even feel coming back to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram… But when I came across Jung not meeting the Maharshi, this for me was the end of the story. For the next fifteen years I rejected Jung completely. But even in my rejection, what I had found in him was so overwhelmingly glued to what I am that I had to find another way, and I got it! Every one opening a path is his own master in his own domain. Not to comment on others’ path is a very sound rule, which avoids all sort of misinterpretations, as if often happens, even with great gurus talking on other gurus, and which turns even more distorted when the statements are reported by some disciple. The following, to my knowledge, is the only certain proof we have regarding Sri Aurobindo: his written reply to Kishor Gandhi, who had submitted to him a text by Jung. I got the information by Kishor Gandhi himself. “What you say about the “Evil Persona” interests me greatly as it answers to my constant experience that a person greatly endowed for the work has, always or almost always, - perhaps one ought not to make a too rigid universal rule about these things – a being attached to him, sometimes appearing like a part of him, which is just the contradiction of the thing he centrally represents in the work to be done. Or, if it is not there at first, not bound to his personality, a force of this kind enters into his environment as soon as he begins his movement to realise. Its business seems to be to oppose, to create stumblings and wrong conditions, in a word, to set before him the whole problem of the work he has started to do. It would seem as if the problem could not, in the occult economy of things, be solved otherwise than by the predestined instrument making the difficulty his own. That would explain many things that seem very disconcerting on the surface.” SRI AUROBINDO, “Letters on Yoga”, p. 1660 Paulette