Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1937

Letter ID: 1927

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

May 2, 1937

Shall go tomorrow to enquire about P’s operation ... I think it would be better to see it again on the screen tomorrow evening, for the needle may have shifted.

Yes.

Why do these things – tooth trouble etc., come to the Mother? I hear that you throw them off very quickly when they try to come to you. The Mother could do the same.

I have not to deal with the sadhaks – except through correspondence.

I am feeling feverish, cold in the head, bad headache. Due to sea bath and diving? What a pity!

Pains of pleasure, I suppose.

Which is better:

“To a motionless abode – intense hushed seas”? or “of deep hushed seas”?

My God, sir, the line with its tangle of sh and s sounds would be unpronounceable like Toru Dutt’s “Sea-shells she sells”.