Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1936

Letter ID: 1721

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

September 10, 1936

What’s the matter with my poetry? I tried yesterday’s poem again for a long tinte, nothing doing! The channel has choked up or what?... Remedy – try and try? or rest and rest?

Both methods are possible and each has its advantages – or they might be combined “Rest and rest and try and try.”

I have been unusually happy after months!... Man of Sorrows was non-existent – kicked out? But unfortunately he is trying to poke his face again!

Twist his nose.

We hear your Supermind is very near – not 50 years, I hope! Time to push us up a little, Sir, so that we may give you a proper reception, what?

That’s what the Force seems to be trying to do.

Don’t forget to make us, at least, feel the Descent. 30 years’ sadhana, by Jove!...

30 years too little or too many? What would have satisfied your rational mind – 3 years? 3 months? 3 weeks? Considering that by ordinary evolution it could not have been done even at Nature’s express speed in less than 3000 years, and would ordinarily have taken anything from 30,000 to 300,000, the transit of 30 years is perhaps riot too slow.

In trying to solve the riddle of the Sphinx, Paul Brunton in his book, A Search in Secret Egypt, says, “That the Sphinx represents something divine or someone divine is suggested by the hieroglyph inscriptions on the walls of the Upper Egyptian temples, as at Edfu, where a god is pictured as changing himself into a lion with a human head in order to vanquish Set, the Egyptian Satan... If the force of a lion and the intelligence of man mingled their symbolisms in this crouching body, there was yet something neither bestial nor human in it, something beyond and above these, something divine!”¹ He says there was some supernatural element in this stone being.

Did the Egyptians or Atlanteans have the same conception or believe in the same evolutionary Avatarhood and hence the statue?

Maybe. But the Sphinx is rather the symbol of the whole evolution from subconscient to the superconscient Light.

He further asks whether the Pyramids are “vast and vain monuments” or are they reared merely to hold one Pharaoh’s mummified flesh?

It is usually supposed by occultists to be a symbolic-scientific monument in which were performed some secret Egyptian Mysteries.

Two doses of Santonin will have no harmful effect on S. But, I suppose, the necessity no longer exists as he is furious with us and may even quit us.

If he doesn’t quit and submits to Santonin we have no objection.

¹ Pp. 33-35.

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