Is it true that a greater and a vaster Force descended this Darshan?Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1936
Letter ID: 1707
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
August 21, 1936
All your answers for the cure of my troubles have been too strong for me, for you have thrown everything on my great self: “If you could do this, if you could do that, etc!”
No, I have only made suggestions of what the great self could do to help the Force and make an orientation for the Force to work upon and carry out.
When I ask you how to do it, you reply – Oh one simply does it! If one could simply do it, why should I bother you?
One simply does it, means that one tries a certain psychological movement which is known by long experience to be effective and the Force enters into it and one day one finds it done.
Tell me, if I pray for Peace, Calm, Force, Strength, etc., will it be enough or not? After that, to be able to reject, detach, must be done by your Force. That’s all I can do, please understand that.
At any rate there must be the acceptance of the rejection or detachment for the Force to use – a kind of will to it. If you simply pray and then say “All right, now, damn it, I have done all that is necessary; I can now lament or indulge” – that makes things a trifle difficult.
On the whole, I feel better today. I could recall after some concentration the nebulous outlines of your face. Something is going to happen?
Yes, of course.
Is it true that a greater and a vaster Force descended this Darshan?
It is not a question of descent. We are nurturing the Force and it grows necessarily stronger and has more effect.
What about Jatin and his wife?
Both of them very well and growing weller since they were here.
I want to ask you a host of questions on the psychology of the affair of D and Y...
By the way, as you got better, D flopped down. Lost his incipient nirbhar and wants to walk off again.
Any time to circulate some Force for poetry?
Yes.
N.B. I send you the lucubrations of the S fellow for your information. I absolutely object to his living in and on the Mother’s force – he would be there like his own ball1, neither melted, nor plastic nor disappeared. Any remarks? Please return the gem as I may have to answer it.
1 The word “ball” was used by the patient to describe an accumulation of gas in the intestines.