Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1937

Letter ID: 1938

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

May 13, 1937

A says his trouble has increased: headache, flatulence, many motions (due to Soda Sulph.). So we shall give him another mixture...

No need of that – he has been having good motions since he is taking Triphala.

[The following question was put by J:]

I would like my present poems to come in a few lines, but the epical tone to be more and more perfect every day.

The epic movement is something that flows; it may not be good to try to shut it into a few lines. There might be a danger of making something too compact. If that can be avoided, then of course it is better to write a few lines with a heightened epic tone than many with the lesser tone.