Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

SABCL 26

Fragment ID: 7925

Q: We feel that your Force gives us the necessary inspiration for poetry, but I often wonder if you send it in a continuous current.

If it were so, we would not write 15 to 20 lines at a stretch and then go on for days together producing only 3 or 4 lines.

A: Of course not. Why should I? It is not necessary. I put my Force from time to time and let it work out what has to be worked out. It is true that with some I have to put it often to prevent too long stretches of unproductivity, but even there I don’t put a continuous current. I have not time for such things.

That depends on the mental instrument. Some people write freely – others do so only when in a special condition.

12-6-1935