Nirodbaran

Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

2. Art and Literature

Modes and Varieties of Poetic Creation

I was not at all speaking of the world, neither am I concerned with it. I was asking why my prayers were not answered by the Above when that Above is on the other side of my house and encourages my writing.

Good Lord! you are not a part of the world? Then you must be a Jivanmukta and no need of prayer.

The Above may encourage your writing, but it does not follow that he will deal with you in the same way as with X; Ye yatha mam prapadyante.

I admit that my vital is lazy, because it is afraid of too much labouring, 4 lines in 40 hours!

Yes, but if the vital were not lazy you would not have to labour like that. It is lazy in labouring but also it is lazy in responding, it is a slow mover.

31.03.1936