Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Himself and the Ashram

The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Volume 35

Help and Guidance

Time and Correspondence [18]

I had to be careful to view this case from all aspects. A considerable drain on the mind might affect the cerebro-spinal system, besides affecting the secretions in consequence. And if one heats up the brain-box in order to reach the Creators or connect up with them, a certain amount of steam has to be let off.

Good Lord! then we shall all “have to be very careful”. Myself for instance am putting a terrible drain on the mind by answering tons of correspondence which can’t be good for my spine or for the other things either. But it gives me a great idea — why shouldn’t I take a medical stop-work from you and declare a six months’ holiday? But I am afraid, if I did, I would misuse it in writing poetry myself, not to speak of trying to connect up with the supramental creators for the benefit of an unprepared humanity. So it is no use.

21 October 1936