Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1938

Letter ID: 2081

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

April 19, 1938

[Sri Aurobindo and the Mother]

Guru, the Muse is too whimsical. Still, I suppose, there is some way, what?

I don’t know that there is, except to catch the inspiration by the hair when it comes, and keep it till the poem is done.

If I could know what time you send in the Force or what’s your best time, I could get an optimum result.

I have no best or worst time – it depends on God’s mercy.

Sitabala’s boil looks like a carbuncle... We have a good anti-vaccine for it, to be applied locally, which we had tried in Parkhi’s case. But it gave him a severe general reaction – fever 104 °. So, should we try?

[Mother:] It may not be prudent to try.