Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1936

Letter ID: 1752

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

October 15, 1936

You have kept that type-script? I am finished then! I know it will have the same fate as the previous one [on Avatar-hood, 6.3.35]! However, I send the book in the off-chance of an expatiation or a divagation.

[Sri Aurobindo filled the gap I had left, with “expatiation”.]

None, none, none! I prefer to excavate instead.

By the way, after a long time I enjoyed two or three days’ true Nirodian, i.e. unyogic, jollity; but the yogic Nirodian gloom has restarted! Goodness knows why these glooms and blooms come and go!

Goodness doesn’t know why, nor does anybody else.

You have finished the prospective action of the Supramental Force by two “yes”s and one “no” [14.10.36]. Evidently you are shy about it, or time is shy?

Time and I both are shy, good reason why.

(Nishikanta says rhyme is quite common in Bengali prose, so why not in English also?)

I am afraid I don’t know about the practical aspect of the abdominal support for T. I have to consult books if they’ve given anything. Meanwhile she can surely lie on her right side for some time, if not “cure de lit”.

That of course. You told her about the “right side”. Mother gave only a general prescription for lying down for an hour or more if necessary after meals.