Day by day things are getting so difficult – more than your Yoga, Sir! My head will break one day. Be prepared for it, please!Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1938
Letter ID: 2176
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
August 31, 1938
By writing that letter, everything has disappeared, and Jyoti is happy.
Guru, this poem1 is really disappointing. I am sure you will find plenty of hurdles...
These are indeed very difficult hurdles but I have leaped them all – only in the process the poem has got considerably reshaped. So I don’t put lines except for a few that have remained almost as they were. The last line is magnificent [“A fathomless beauty in a sphere of pain”] – the others mostly needed a revision which they don’t seem to have got.
Day by day things are getting so difficult – more than your Yoga, Sir! My head will break one day. Be prepared for it, please!
Well, well, when the head is broken, a passage for a superior light is often created – so either way you gain, a safe head or an illumined one.
1 “Reunion”, Sun-Blossoms, p. 77.