Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1937

Letter ID: 1954

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

May 29, 1937

Exhibited N.P. to Philaire. Operation is the only remedy, so?

Mother says NO – So?

The rubber sheet Mother gave for the dispensing table is worn out. She had given a shawl which is very good. Shall we use it then?

You can buy a rubber sheet for it.

Mother does not recollect about the shawl.

There is hardly any substantial result of my writing poetry every night. Should one store up and then spend economically, effectively, splendidly now and then, say twice a week, like Amal? Which method do you advise?

Can’t say. You have progressed much by the present method. Could try the other now and then for perfection if you like.

Perhaps in all the poems there is a touch of inspiration, but is that going to be heightened by storing up for some time and then allowing the gush – that’s the question before you.

It is a question before you, sir – not before me.

Guru, J has been terribly puzzled and worried, myself a little less, about your “too overmental style”!

Ornamental, not overmental.

... She exercised her mental faculty too much? Epic movement has to surpass that?

No, sir – You must read my epic handwriting properly first – afterwards exercise your mental faculty.