Can you not send me one or two of your mystic sonnets?Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1936
Letter ID: 1812
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
December 27, 1936
For A, Dr. Manilal advises only one emetine injection and try its effect since she had so many attacks of dysentery. Well?
She writes that Manilal has told her to live on milk and take no other food (except lemon water when she is thirsty). I am searching in your reports but find nothing. What’s the row? Is it a fact? Most of these women, I believe, are cooking and eating food of their own fancy and going wrong in the stomach.
I’m trying hard to get rid of J’s influence in poetry, but I can’t succeed. I don’t know how to do it.
Persevere and call for something new, then it will come.
Can you not send me one or two of your mystic sonnets?
Which sonnets? I have written the two sonnets of spiritual realisation1 which were circulated. I don’t remember any others; except poems of a more philosophical cast – these I did not circulate.
1 “Transformation” and “Nirvana”, SABCL, vol. 5 (Collected Poems), p. 161.