Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1938

Letter ID: 2211

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

October 14, 1938

[Sri Aurobindo and the Mother]

Arjava has finished 1 lb. of paraffin in 15 days! ... I don’t know any emergency requiring paraffin so badly. It is not emergency, but his continuous consumption that we have to see about...

[Mother:] All the same you can buy the paraffin – – – –

We have no name to suggest for our helper, as it is very difficult to choose. I think whomever you send will be good.

[Mother:] Just now I see nobody whom I can send, but someone may turn up.

Guru, I almost wanted to stop writing as my recent poems turned out unsatisfactory either due to my head or due to the study of modern English verses.

You are too easily discouraged. Such drops in the Inspiration are inevitable when one constantly writes poetry.

But why should the study of verses have a wrong influence?

It depends on what you are studying. There are verses and verses.

Today’s poem won’t fare any better, I fear.

It is better.