“The fathomless beauty on the soul’s blue rimSri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1938
Letter ID: 2189
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
September 16, 1938
[Sri Aurobindo and the Mother]
“The fathomless beauty on the soul’s blue rim
Wakes with a heaven-stirring cry
And mirrors on the heart’s horizon glass...”
Lord Christ! what a yell for beauty to emit! Besides the correlation waking with a cry and mirroring is not very convincing. For heaven’s sake do something about this.
What is a horizon glass? cousin of opera-glass?
“All drunken shadows of thought fade and pass...”
“Drunken shadows”!! If even shadows become bibulous and stagger, what will become of the Congress and its prohibition laws? Besides Rajagopalachari is sure to pass a law soon forbidding the publication of any book with the words “wine” and “drunken” in it.
You may damn as many lines as you like and find as many rabid utterances as you may, but I can’t every day go on looking at the void for a line! I have drunk “the wine of Fire”, and you see the result!
I have damned only one line and rearranged others. I have even 3 lined the wine of Fire.
I wait for your crushing strokes and then shall see if I can do the repairs.
One line please.
Otherwise down will it go into the W.P.B.
No need.
By the way, you had better hurry up with your Supermind descent, Sir. Otherwise Hitler, Mussolini & Co. will gunfire it like – !
What has Supermind to do with Hitler or Hitler with Supermind? Do you expect the Supermind to aviate to Berchtesgaden? How the 
devil can they gunfire S; their aeroplanes can’t even reach Pondicherry, much less the Supermind. The descent of S depends on S, not on Hitler or no Hitler.
Things look damnably bad, what?
Bad enough unless Chamberlain finds a way to wriggle out of it.
Sahana says you have advised her and Amiya to take calcium. We have calcium lactate which is as good. Shall we give that?
[Mother:] She did not speak of a medicine but of some food which is usually taken in Bengal, but I do not remember its name.1
1 Kalzana food: a patent form of calcium.