Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1938

Letter ID: 2073

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

April 6, 1938

[Sri Aurobindo and the Mother]

You have spoken of the original inspiration becoming “mentalised”. Could you tell me how it gets mentalised?

This mentalisation is a subtle process which takes place unobserved. The inspiration, as soon as it strikes the mental layer (where it first becomes visible) is met by a less intense receptivity of the mind which passes the inspired substance through but substitutes its own expression, an expression stressed by the force of inspiration into a special felicity but not reproducing or transmitting the inspired beat itself.

P has a dry cough. Some sedative cough mixture will do her good. She wants your approval before we give her medicine.

[Mother:] Yes, I told her already to go to you for medicine.