Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1936

Letter ID: 1710

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

August 25, 1936

Jatin’s wife writes to her sister that she is extremely happy here... I can understand Jatin saying something like that, but she knowing nothing about spirituality likes the place so much – miraculous, what?

Why? Plenty of people have felt that. E.g. the Yuvarani comes here full of a secret sorrow for her lost son and goes back very happy.

Jatin had a dream of you as in the photograph, giving him instructions in his structural engineering work!!... It was Sri Aurobindo in his previous form, he says, why?

I suppose, the present Sri Aurobindo having left all engineering instructions to the Mother, the previous Sri Aurobindo had to come and do it in this case.

We see then that Sri Aurobindo has come out, the least hope of which we don’t entertain. For another thing, he has come out as an Engineer! Any possibility of the fruition of the dream?

Anyhow what has it to do with coming out? Any number of people meet me in dreams and get instructions or intimations about this or that. It is an activity of the vital plane where I am not in strict retirement – it has nothing to do with any future physical happening.

What’s this threat, Sir? You are cryptic because you are becoming more and more supramental! [21.8.36]. For the Supramental’s sake, don’t be that yet. I have many things to know...

Well, but haven’t I told you that the supramental can’t be understood by the intellect? So necessarily or at least logically, if I become supramental and speak supramentally, I must sound unintelligible to everybody. Q.E.D. It is not a threat, only the statement of a natural evolution.

A carpenter beaten by a rat...

Say, say! I never heard of a rat beating a man before! He ought to go to the criminal court instead of the hospital.