“... Pouring from their luminous-rhythmed feet Songs of a magic-hearted moon.” Songs from feet?Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1938
Letter ID: 2065
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
March 26, 1938
[Sri Aurobindo and the Mother]
“Voices of some birds are heard...”
Some birds? Very vague and weak – unless some in American sense! Put anything else, e.g. sky-birds –
“... Pouring from their luminous-rhythmed feet Songs of a magic-hearted moon.” Songs from feet?
Never! If people began to sing with their feet, the world would be startled into a magic-hearted swoon.
Mulshankar has headache and vomiting. They are recurrent nowdays. I am thinking of trying to find a remedy by the method you suggested [“energetic sadhana”, 8.12.37]. But has it the possibility of success? I raise the question because some diseases seem to have no remedy at all, e.g. S’s, L’s and A’s. Can’t say definitely about Mulshankar’s. It is also a chronic thing from his childhood. Of course it doesn’t mean that for that reason it has no cure. Anyway, I shall try; please give your help.
[Mother:] Nothing is incurable but it is the hidden cause of the illness that must be discovered. I’ll put in French what I mean:
C’est un fonctionnement qui est mauvais quelque part, pas une lésion – et l’origine de ce mauvais fonctionnement est probablement nerveuse (due à quelque chose de faussé dans le vital – ceci est l’ultime cause psychologique).1
1 There is a functional disorder somewhere, not a lesion – and the origin of this functional disorder is probably nervous (due to something wrong in the vital – this is the ultimate psychological cause).