What is a mistake? Eventually the Force used is always the Force that was destined to be used. If it succeeds, it does its work in the whole and if it fails it has also done its work in the whole. ন তত্র শোচতে বুধঃ1Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1937
Letter ID: 1913
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
April 17, 1937
When we were discussing about the Force and the Spanish General Miaja [6.4.37], you said: “Let us suppose... I put the right force on him...”, why did you say “right”? Is there also a wrong Force? Can’t be, for it is the Divine Force.
Don’t remember what exactly I wrote – so can’t say very well. But of course there can be a wrong Force. There are Asuric Forces, rajasic Forces, all sorts of Forces. Apart from that one can use a mental or vital Force which may not be the right thing. Or one may use the Force in such a way that it does not succeed or does not hit the General on the head or is not commensurate with the opposing Forces. (Opposing Forces need not be Asuric, they may be quite gentlemanly Forces thinking they are in the right. Or two Divine Forces might knock at each other for the fun of the thing. Infinite possibilities, sir, in the play of Forces.)
Even if it can’t be wrong, its efficacy will vary with the power of the communicant. For instance there will be a difference between Ramakrishna’s and Vivekananda’s Force, and therefore in the resultant effectivity or ineffectivity.
Naturally.
What I want to know is whether the Force, applied or directed, is always the right Force. Can there be any mistake in the Force, in its misapplication or in its failure to get the desired result?...
What is a mistake? Eventually the Force used is always the Force that was destined to be used. If it succeeds, it does its work in the whole and if it fails it has also done its work in the whole. ন তত্র শোচতে বুধঃ1
My main point is the Intuition. The Force has evidently a close connection with the intuition or any other faculties which are awakened by the action of the Force.
In what way? A Force may be applied without any intuition – an intuition can come without any close connection with a Force, except the force of intuition itself which is another matter. Moreover a Force may be applied from a higher plane than that of any Intuition.
By the way, it seems your Supramental is a magnificent something wide apart by gulfs and seas from all other Powers and Forces.
Certainly, otherwise I wouldn’t be after it.
You won’t say anything about the Supramental till it descends. It is this great mystery about it that makes us pin all our faith on it and the word Supermind goes from mouth to mouth. Ah, if we could have faint glimpses of it!
Not much utility in this mouth to mouth business. If people set themselves seriously to the task of psychic or spiritual opening or development, it would be much more useful – even for the coming of the Supramental. If I tried to explain about the Supramental, it would be all UP with the Supramental. The rest of the lives of the sadhaks would be spent in discussing the supramental and how near Nirod or Nishikanta or Anilbaran was to the Supramental and whether this was supramental or that was supramental or whether it was supramental to drink tea or not etc., etc. and there would be no more chance of any sadhana.
In my Bengali poem of yesterday, you asked me: “What’s 
this word?” Well, I meant it to be ত্রস্ত2, but wrote instead স্ত্রস্ত3 A স4 sat on top, you could have cut it off.
Thought it ought to go off, but it snapped its fingers and said it was too big and clear and positive to be treated in that way.
Any necessity of making মূর্চ্ছিতা5 feminine?
Hallo! I thought you were in favour of the feminine being used for everything, even words which were originally masculine and neuter?
স্মৃতি6 personified?
স্মৃতি or memory is in all languages feminine and is personified as a goddess or a feminine form – yet you object! Queer! Anyway if she can have a বক্ষ7 why can’t she be figured as a person?
We examined D’s stools – not dysenteric at all...
As regards treatment, how about trying one or two days greens? Boil them in water and give with rice?
Very good idea.
After that we may try a dose of castor-oil. I wonder if he has an anal fissure ... The pain he complains of is at the anus and not around the umbilicus.
If so, can’t it be discovered? If that’s the thing Anthenor pommade is indicated after quarter litre wash – if he’s too young for enema with the tube, a poire might be used.
S has a hard red swelling about the left elbow joint; no cause...
Sir, in this world there is nothing without a cause – unless you hold the ultra-modern view that causation does not exist.
We have been giving some perfumed toilet powder to C for sweating. K asked for it; now S also has asked for it. Don’t know if it is for sweating or “contagion”. Can’t go on at this rate, can we?
No. Can’t give to everybody. They must get their anti-perspiration from the Prosperity normally.
1 na tatra śocate budhaḥ: the wise man grieves not over that.
2 trasta.
3 strasta.
4 sa.
5 mūrcchitā, one who swoons.
6 smṛti: memory.
7 vakṣa: bosom.