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Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

Nirodbaran. Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo.— In 2 series.— Second Series.— Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, 1959.— 293 p. 18 cm.— CONTENTS: Spirituality (pp.3-130); Art and Literature (pp.133-222); Matters Medical (pp.231-299).

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Section One. Spirituality

Understanding the Supermind

   You won't say anything about the Supramental...

17-04-1937

   Your Supermind business baffles our understanding...

26-06-1938

Supramentalisation and the Conquest of Death

   I find that there is a change of views on your part about the Supermind's descent...

09-10-1936

   If the Supermind descends into you...

14-10-1936

Sadhana

   It is quite right and part of the right consciousness...

 

   Aspire to realisation, but do not be over-eager

 

   It is the soul, the psychic being in you

 

   All things are the Divine

 

   It is exactly a year and a half since...

 

   The two feelings are both of them right...

28-09-1936

Inner Sight and Hearing

   The world you see is in some subtle physical plane...

(?)

   The sounds or voices you hear...

(?)

   Nishikanto has written a poem...

14-01-1936

   Whilst I was having a nap...

20-12-1935

   About the snake you saw...

(?)

Spiritual Experiences

   Outside the Body Consciousness

(?)

   Wideness

(?)

   Wideness

(?)

   Wideness

(?)

   Ananda

(?)

   Ananda

(?)

   Ananda

(?)

   Knowledge and Love

(?)

   The Descent of the Force

(?)

   August Darshan

(?)

   August Darshan

(?)

   November Darshan

(?)

   Presences and Forms

28-10-1936

   Presences and Forms

26-03-1937

   Spiritual Experiences and Human Defects

14-11-1936

   Spiritual Experiences and Human Defects

19-11-1936

   Spiritual Experiences and Human Defects

21-11-1936

   Spiritual Experiences and Human Defects

28-11-1936

   Love for the Divine and Experience of the Divine

14-03-1936

   Brahman Consciousness

18-07-1937

   The Vital Plane

04-03-1935

   The Vital Plane

26-08-1936

Meditation

   Right Meditation

(?)

   Meditation and Work

(?)

   Meditation and Sleep

(?)

   Meditation and Sleep

(?)

   The Inner Being and the Surface Consciousness

(?)

   The Inner Being and the Surface Consciousness (Durga)

(?)

The Ashram and its Yoga

   Yogic Ups and Downs

(?)

   Yogic Ups and Downs

02-04-1937

   Yogic Ups and Downs

11-04-1937

   Yogic Ups and Downs

25-06-1937

   The true Way of Yoga

19-05-1936

   The true Way of Yoga

11-03-1937

   Views about Yoga

(?)

   The Ashram's “Prestige” – Praise and Blame

30-06-1938

   The Ashram's “Prestige” – Praise and Blame

(?)

   The Ashram's “Prestige” – Praise and Blame

(?)

   The Ashram's “Prestige” – Praise and Blame

(?)

   Departures from the Ashram

02-09-1935

   Departures from the Ashram

21-04-1937

   "Big Men" and the Ashram's Spiritual Work

(?)

Yogic Guidance

   The outer guidance is meant...

(?)

   I want you to be open and in contact...

(?)

   There is nothing peculiar about retrogression...

05-08-1936

   Cheerfulness is the salt of the sadhana...

(?)

   Tell me, if I pray for peace...

21-08-1936

   I am trying to be silent within,...

(?)

   You are quite right in taking...

(?)

   The stream which you feel...

(?)

   As for the other matter...

(?)

   The absence of thought...

(?)

Rishi and Yogi

   Would you call X a Rishi?

09-02-1936

   A Rishi is one who sees or discovers

11-02-1936

The Mother's Action

   The Mother appears to be reducing her physical contact with us.

22-04-1933

   X seems to think that the Mother is harder than you.

11-03-1937

   We are told the Mother can act best

21-04-1937

   Is it true that physical work opens one more...

10-07-1936

Spiritual Force and Other Forces

   As to Force let me point out a few elementary notions...

(?)

   If it [the latent medico] were there...

(?)

   One can feel it [Force] in the same way...

(?)

   If I have knowledge of the play of the forces...

02-09-1935

   Do you think the Yogic Force will enable...

02-10-1935

   I tried hard to write a poem...

21-06-1936

   When we were discussing a certain Spanish General...

17-04-1937

Human Relationships

   Human Affection

(?)

   Personal Relations in the Spiritual Life

23-06-1936

   Personal Relations in the Spiritual Life

26-10-1936

   Personal Relations in the Spiritual Life

03-05-1938

   Spiritual Gurus and Marriage

27-04-1936

   Problems of Harmonisation

(?)

   Problems of Harmonisation

04-06-1936

   Problems of Harmonisation

05-12-1935

   Problems of Harmonisation

06-12-1935

Animal-sacrifice, Self-sacrifice, Spiritual Sacrifice

   Is there any truth behind animal sacrifices to Kali?

04-10-1935

   Self-sacrifice for the country's sake...

17-10-1935

   Sacrifice depends on the inner attitude...

12-07-1937

Seeking for Happiness

   I wrote some time back that behind any difficult...

09-02-1936

   You have hit me well by asking...

11-02-1936

The Man of Sorrows

   I. Human Life and Suffering

(?)

   II. Difficulties and Despair

11-05-1933

   II. Difficulties and Despair

12-05-1933

   II. Difficulties and Despair

28-05-1933

   II. Difficulties and Despair

30-12-1933

   II. Difficulties and Despair

10-05-1934

   II. Difficulties and Despair

09-06-1934

   II. Difficulties and Despair

15-10-1934

   II. Difficulties and Despair

24-10-1934

   III. Despair and Commonsense

23-02-1935

   IV. Depression and Yoga

(?)

   IV. Depression and Yoga

19-06-1935

   IV. Depression and Yoga

20-06-1935

   IV. Depression and Yoga

13-09-1935

   IV. Depression and Yoga

14-09-1935

   IV. Depression and Yoga

01-10-1935

   IV. Depression and Yoga

25-12-1935

   IV. Depression and Yoga

21-07-1937

   V. Jeremiads and the Divine Force

20-01-1936

   V. Jeremiads and the Divine Force

21-01-1936

   V. Jeremiads and the Divine Force

21-04-1936

   V. Jeremiads and the Divine Force

24-04-1936

   V. Jeremiads and the Divine Force

24-01-1936

   V. Jeremiads and the Divine Force

02-06-1936

   V. Jeremiads and the Divine Force

03-06-1936

   V. Jeremiads and the Divine Force

04-06-1936

   V. Jeremiads and the Divine Force

14-06-1936

   V. Jeremiads and the Divine Force

08-01-1937

"Blue Moon"

25-12-1935

Section two. Art and Literature

Which art is the greatest?

   There has been often a discussion...

(?)

   I don't understand at all, Sir...

06-01-1936

Literary Activity and Yoga

   have been thinking whether I would not profit...

14-05-1934

   To be a literary man is not a spiritual aim...

(?)

   There should be no “desire” to be a “great” writer

(?)

   What is written for X is not meant for you

17-08-1934

   In some cases you don't seem to like people to be engrossed...

22-05-1934

   I have such a push to write poetry...

(?)

   X says: “If you want to publish your literary work...

24-07-1936

   When you bring in the examples of Milton...

05-08-1936

   If you want to understand my supramental “brevities”...

19-09-1936

   Some people have the trick of always opening to a Force

(?)

   One should be acquainted with the best literature

(?)

Poetic Inspiration and Yoga

   Need one aspire even for writing poetry?

10-05-1934

   For some time past the inspiration has stopped

08-06-1934

   We feel that your Force gives us the necessary inspiration

12-06-1935

   A.K.'s poetry has caused a flutter.

03-03-1936

   You ask me why I don't keep my inner condition right

04-03-1936

   As regards poetry, inspiration exists, so also effort

06-03-1936

   You actually propose “Laugh and grow fat”

09-03-1936

   Is effort without demand of result possible

09-03-1936

   I am obliged to sleep out for a few days

25-03-1936

   My hard labour and effort deprive me of the joy...

29-03-1936

   In regard to writing poetry, not only is my vital lazy...

31-03-1936

   I am sending you a poem.

04-04-1936

   In one letter you spoke of fictitious stresses

25-04-1936

   Have I any strand of yogic seeking in me?

28-07-1936

   Writing poetry as a result of yoga ought to spiritualise one

08-08-1936

   I am satisfied with the answers exposing the symptoms

09-08-1936

   I can try to call down the Mother's force

18-08-1936

   While X and others receive your Force for poetry

18-09-1936

   Lawrence says one can only write creative stuff

10-11-1936

   We may have progressed in literature

11-11-1936

   Amal says Cousins ignored your poem “Rishi”

13-11-1936

   You have suddenly reached a remarkable maturity

07-08-1936

   The sameness does not matter much.

24-08-1938

   What the deuce are you complaining about?

07-09-1938

   Indians and the Writing of English Poetry

27-02-1936

   Joy and the Writing of Poetry

14-12-1936

Mystic Poetry

   Meaning and Intellectual Understanding

(?)

   Meaning and Intellectual Understanding

04-12-1936

   Meaning and Intellectual Understanding

08-12-1936

   Imagination and Experience in Poetry

27-05-1936

   Imagination and Experience in Poetry

27-05-1936

Surrealist Poetry

   I don't know what this is driving at.

17-01-1937

   I am a little disappointed

17-01-1937

   Could you say something about Nirodbaran's poetry?

12-02-1937

Mallarme

(?)

Sameness in Spiritual Poetry

25-05-1938

Overhead Poetry

(?)

"Savitri"

29-03-1936

Rhythmical Overtones and Undertones

11-05-1937

Poetic Qualities

   My life is veiled in a sleep of light,

30-03-1938

   About yesterday's poem...

31-03-1938

   You call this line...

02-09-1938

   I am afraid the language of your appreciations...

03-11-1938

   Sonnet

22-02-1936

Iambics, Anapaests, Trochees

   What on earth do you mean?

10-12-1935

   Trochees are perfectly admissible

22-12-1935

   One more poem

16-02-1936

Imperfect Rhymes

19-12-1935

Modes and Varieties of Poetic Creation

   I like your poem very much.

05-06-1935

   It is proposed to include me in an Ashram Anthology

24-08-1935

   I have been plodding at a poem

08-12-1935

   X's poetry is more mental.

13-02-1936

   One can't make rigid rules like that.

21-12-1935

   When J was asked to compose songs...

23-08-1936

   A poem for you.

07-06-1936

   How do you find the poem

23-08-1936

   Yes, the mind is used as a medium.

(?)

   I was not at all speaking of the world...

31-03-1936

Section three. Matters Medical

The Doctor and the Divine Force

   I was under the impression that you

(?)

   I am sending you a diagnosis

28-01-1935 / 31-01-1935

   I still can't understand why you

01-02-1935

   What is this “confounded quarrel with Matter”...

02-02-1935

   I hear that plenty of forces come

(?)

Illness: its Entry and its Prevention

   We all believe that as soon as you read our letters

(?)

   It seems that people are now depending

09-10-1936

The Doctor

   The Doctor as Patient: Two Personalities

(?)

   The Successful Doctor

(?)

The Transformation of Sex Energy

03-12-1935

Medicine as Science

   When a medicine is a specific...

04-01-1936

   Medicine is not exactly science

(?)

   But our allopathic medicine...

(?)

   In fact, much of our knowledge originates...

(?)

Cases of Poisoning

   Our “poisoned” patient has...

25-02-1935

   It would be better if he stopped taking...

26-05-1935

   I am sending you an account of Mithridates...

27-02-1935

   X, in a disturbed condition of mind...

(?)

Sri Aurobindo and Illness

   It is long since I have had anything but slight fragments...

26-03-1935

   It may be “policeman's disease” as the French call it

(?)

Medicines and the Mother's Body

01-02-1937

Medicines, Prognostications, Consoling Medical Words

01-02-1937

Experiment, Experience, Knowledge, Intuition, Inspiration

   There is a vegetable called “bubble and squeak.”

06-04-1937

   I did not flare up

10-04-1937

   Mother told me to practise the intuitive method

10-04-1937

   Your idea is that either I must inspire...

28-04-1937

   Practise and learn, learn and practise.

03-10-1935

Vaccination

   Haven't denied partial effectivity though complete it is not...

14-04-1937

   Amrita was to have offered himself as a victim...

28-04-1937

   You don't know the story of Pavitra and Khitish...

29-04-1937

Variable Cure and Absolute Cure

16-04-1938

Cancer Cure by Yoga

11-10-1935

Homeopathy

   How can homeopathy cure diseases...

23-12-1935 / 26-12-1935

   While crushing my rigid mind...

28-12-1935

   The Force needs an instrument...

(?)

   Have you asked R his opinion...

20-03-1937

   Tumour, syphilis etc. are...

03-1937(?)

   I see there is something in his treatment...

(?)

   To bring out the latent illness...

(?)

   I have put down a few comments...

(?)

Medical Notes

   Well, Sir, you have made people believe...

17-10-1936

   A descent cannot possibly produce nausea...

18-10-1936

   I dreamt that the Mother is building...

19-07-1937

   I find that as a result of your Force

14-03-1937

   Miracles can be done, but there is no reason...

30-03-1937

   It is no use discussing these matters.

04-04-1937

   All “science” does not recommend castor oil for...

09-04-1937

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