Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1937

Letter ID: 2013

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

August 1, 1937

The last two lines of the poem are too long, perhaps? Oh, N complains of evening fever 100°, for the last few days.

Part of your poetry? Can’t scan it.

I have read Dilip’s poem – there is the force of a new inspiration in the language and the building and turns of thought, something more intense and gathered together. I think there is something less mental, a new and more vibrant note.

I have gone through Surawardy. He has certainly a fine poetic vein, but his success is less than his capacity – The two poems, China Sea and Asoca Tree are very fine – the rest are in a lower pitch; there are fewer deliberate descents into the commonplace than in the old man poems, but also not so frequent, intense felicities of expression and powerful lines.

.. You have perhaps said somewhere that when the Supramental descends, everything will be comparatively easier. Do you mean sex-conquest too?

This force seems to have been pushing strongly in recent days – for there are others who have been stumbling – luckily the stumble gave them a reaction which has made them more awake to the necessity of “no-indulgence”.