Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1936

Letter ID: 1726

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

September 17, 1936

As I thought – no help but to wait for canalisation and in the meantime carry on. I suppose all “lacks” will be removed by the descent of Force?

Obviously, obviously!

You promised to write to me about Intuition, but like all your promises – !

I promised to do so in some future age when I had time. That promise stands – if a promise stands. What more can you ask of it?

God knows what you are busy with now, with the correspondence also reduced?

Who says it is reduced? For a few days, it was – now it has increased to half again its former size and every morning I have to race to get it done in time – and don’t get it done in time. Thousand things are accumulating; inner work delayed.

I didn’t mean by “practical suggestions”, any medical ones, Sir! I meant about the Force. R, I saw once, put his hand on a patient’s abdomen, and concentrated, God knows on what...

On the Mother and her Force for which he was calling.

I hear he actually feels the Force descending and the patients also get relief for the time being.

Yes, that has frequently happened.

Suppose I do the same, I know I won’t feel any Force descending, but without feeling it, it may descend and act?

Doubtful.

Regarding A, you said he was refractory to big doses. In that case, how will my calling help the canalisation of the hard granite?

Even to small doses. Sometimes I get in a little surreptitiously and, as it were, against his will. He is much more granite than you.

You can be less mysterious in these explanations, si vous voulez.

Not mysterious at all. Succinct and epigrammatic.