Nirodbaran

Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

2. Art and Literature

Mystic Poetry

I. Meaning and Intellectual Understanding

I don't know about that. The vaktavya is there it seems to me and expressed, but it does not come to so much as one would expect from the richness of the expression. I suppose he means that you have caught only little of something that might be expressed – only a hair of the tail instead of the complete animal.

I was feeling happy, but the very next day a nebulous cloak of depression fell and I am still under it. Well!

Tut, tut, tut!¹ You really must get rid of this kind of thing, hang it all. Out of this kind of nebula no constellation can be made.

04.12.1936

¹ mantra, form of oṁ tat sat

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