of the central being, and how should I wake up the vital enthusiasm for poetry? If there is one workable formula that will be a panacea, so much the better.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1936
Letter ID: 1698
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
August 9, 1936
I am satisfied with the answers exposing brilliantly the symptoms and providing the diagnosis. Now the prognosis and the treatment.
That is more difficult. Panacea there is, but only one, which you have indicated in your today’s poem1.
How should I develop the push, the harmony and resolution of the central being, and how should I wake up the vital enthusiasm for poetry? If there is one workable formula that will be a panacea, so much the better.
For the rest there are several formulas which are not panaceas. The first is to get into touch with your central being and get it into action. That central may be the psychic, it may be the Self above with the mental Purusha as its delegate. Either of these once in action does the harmonising etc.
The second way is to act with your mental will on these things, not allowing yourself to drift and not getting upset by difficulties and checks, calling on the Mother’s Force to assist and finally use your will. There are others, but I stop here.
I want urgently that part of the Divine which will help me keep my poise, calm, peace against any assault from the vital quarter...
It is what is trying to come down in the block condition.
D.L. has less pain. Starts normal meals. She asked if she could take oranges and grapes. I said – yes.
Grapes are safe? If she does not wash them in boiling water or a solution of permanganate?
By “swarms” I meant swarms of Trichomonas.
The medicine had no effect? But if the Trichomonas are there in quantity, why is it necessary to search for Hookworms?
1 A Bengali poem, “Nirbhar”, published in Swapnadīp, p. 19.