Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1934 — 1935
Mother,
I want to place with Ardhendu1 an order for a tambura2
with six wires. The one I use is with four wires. I want this as an innovation. I have long wanted it from a suggestion of the greatest theorist of Bengali music, one K. Bannerji, but could not get a mechanic clever enough to do it as I want. I have at last found in him the Godsend (or Supramental if you will). He has undertaken to do it with Rs.50 (fifty). Will you be so kind as to sanction it? I trust you will – but I won’t mind if you don’t. It is not a demand but a request: since my gramophone song too has become a success (incredible, yet irrefutable!). I feel Mother can spare it – I mean I will be able to replenish this Rs.50 from the gramophone funds. Will you allow? You will hear my music will [be?] much improved by this innovation. You see I have always had this vein for innovation and Ardhendu is enthused over my idea! So –?
Yes, of course.
P.S. Mother, I saw a nice dream at about 4.30 a.m. this morning. I saw a violet light (in dream) very beautiful and in everybody and everything the ambiance of Krishna, the trees, dust, men, etc. I was thrilled and said in dream to myself, “I must now believe that I begin to see Krishna’s grace.” It was very vivid and beautiful when I woke up at about 5, I think, I woke in great joy. The effect lingered.
How do you call that a dream? It was a realisation by the inner consciousness in some kind of swapna samādhi. Very often a realisation comes like that as the inner being wakes in what seems to be sleep. Violet is indeed the colour of light of Divine Compassion, as also of Krishna’s grace.