Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1938

Letter ID: 2097

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

May 9, 1938

[Sri Aurobindo and the Mother]

These two poems followed as if one piece. But I find some difference. Both seem to have a similarity in thought.

They seem to me separate. Probably the broadcaster above forgot to announce “Here I begin some new stuff.”

Don’t get into a fit over the rhyme – it can be done once in a way.

Nolini wants a very good recent poem of mine, to try in Viswabharati (Tagore’s paper). I wonder if they will publish it. Would an “intuitive” poem be better or a coloured or stressed one?

Depends on the poetic taste of the Viswabharati editor about which I know nothing.

Roch (an Atelier worker) came today after 4 or 5 days! Diarrhoea stopped the very day, but no motion since then. He has pain in the abdomen, fever, weakness. What to do with these people? They don’t want to go to the hospital, neither do they come here regularly. How to treat such cases?

[Mother:] I suppose you have to threaten them with a refusal of treating them if they do not come regularly – We used to be very strict that way before and it had some effect.