Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1937
Letter ID: 1947
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
May 22, 1937
There are plenty of alternatives and questions in this poem1; I hope they don’t annoy you.
No, it doesn’t annoy – but, sir, you have written a magnificent poem without knowing it and that is absurd. The foam-washed shore on the edge of time is splendid, twilight’s starry heart-beat is splendid; lines 7, 8, 9, 12 are O.K., while the couplet, sir, the couplet is a miracle. If these are not O.P., they ought to be.
Quite awfully fine. Gaudeamus igitur2.
The bakery servant’s ulcer is varicose ulcer. Rather difficult to heal, for according to medical science the first step in treatment is rest of the parts affected. But since it is not bad, we may hope to cure it. About the risk, Mother has taken the responsibility.
Mother was told it was a wound and nothing much and the varicose affair was separate.
What responsibility and what risk? No one is responsible for the effects of an illness.
1 Fifty Poems of Nirodbaran, p. 13.
2 Let us therefore rejoice