Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1938

Letter ID: 2160

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

July 29, 1938

“My heart yearns now for thy divine

Primeval Word,

Bringing a sense of crystalline

Fire-ecstasy, stirred

In every cell and lifted high

Into a gold

Vision of thy Infinity,

Fold after fold.”

I don’t think infinity can be rolled about like that, but it can be unrolled, that is revealed progressively and continuously before the sight.

Guru, I am afraid this poem has many defects in detail. It was written after a lot of castor-oil drugging!

The castor-oil seems to have been effective at any rate. Very fine poem – only three lines (in themselves very poetic) lack original force (5th stanza).