In the days when Sri Aurobindo used to give Darshan, before he gave it there was always a concentration of certain forces or of a certain realisation which he wanted to give people. And so each Darshan marked a stage forward; each time something was added. But that was at a time when the number of visitors was very limited.

In "The Formation Of The Ashram", also in Mother India Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust (1987), p. 474