Shall I cry out – “Damn it all; don’t worry even if the lower vital bursts up. Everything will be all right”?Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1936
Letter ID: 1705
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
August 19, 1936
I’m again passing through a period of মন থারাপ1 due to the same old vital trouble.
Ah that মন থারাপ! If you could only get rid of it – face the thing calmly and steadily as something to be eliminated which necessarily takes time but must and will be done!
... Now tell me how I should keep this nirbhar when the vital rises. Rejection? Detachment?
D first – R with D.
How shall I detach myself when a subtle strain of dissatisfaction runs within?
Detach from the dissatisfaction.
Shall I cry out – “Damn it all; don’t worry even if the lower vital bursts up. Everything will be all right”?
That is not nirbhar.
I fear all my answers2 are scrappy as well as illegible, but this has been also a fell day (one letter 36 pages vernacular, 2 others each 8 pages of foolscap, others less in size (4, 2, 1 etc.) but ample in number – and this is no-correspondence period!) I have had to race against the old man Time.
1 man khārāp: bad mood.
2 Not published.