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Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Nirodbaran/English/Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo-Vol_1/1935 - March.htm
March 1935
I am thinking of doing some studies
in English language, not for any creative purpose, but for recreation.
All right.
With this aim in view, I want to
take up your immortal philosophy — though my walnut of a brain can't do much with it — and if you will allow, have some discussions with you, at intervals.
Provided the discussions can be put in
a "walnut" shell!
I hear you are having
a tough fight with the forces ?
Very beastly — these forces. One can't
advance a single step without their throwing their shells and stink-bombs. However like General Joffre, I advance. "Nous progressâmes."¹
If we busy ourselves
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April 1936
I have worked today from 1-30 to 6-15 p.m.—5 hours! —
and composed only 16 lines!
But that is quite magnificent —16 lines in one day, 3¹/5 lines an
hour about! Remember that Virgil used only to write 9 lines a day.
At this rate you will end by being twice as inspired and fluent as
Virgil.
Saurin has hurt his thumb in the train and it seems to be in a
bad condition. Go and see and give the necessary treatment.
April 1, 1936
By the way, I hope you didn't intend to make me an April-
fool mentioning Virgil and Nirod in the same pen-stroke!
[In pencil.] What a modest poet! Most think themselves the superior of Homer, Milton and
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1935
I am rather shocked to hear of the behaviour of D.S. lacking
ail common sense, not to speak of Yogic attitude and that too
after living here for so many years!
At any rate it is not Yoga that upset D.S. He never proposed to do any — he was interested only in medicine. That, he always said, was
his Yoga, to read, to study, to experiment, to learn more and more
about medicine. But perhaps you will say that Yoga of works is
responsible.
Then I thought if one has big experiences, he will be safe,
but G has shattered that delusion. This man is said to have
had overmental experiences! And he also gone. I have
heard that you don't approve of one's going.
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December 1935
Does he have an immediate intuition or does he hear voices ?
Well, he believes in his intuition and his faith justified itself. I never
heard that he hears voices.
If he doesn't know that, his self-confidence, however strong
and enormous, can't make him commit himself to such
an extent. It would be foolish in some places.
Why can't it? How dreadfully downright and sweeping you are
in your demands! What ground had Mustapha Kemal for his strong
and enormous confidence when he defied all Europe and all the
probabilities and possibilities and undertook to save three-quarters
dead Turkey?
What does that matter if it succeeds in some plac
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May 1936
I thought as much, Sir, that you would quote your
own
instance as regards the weight. Exercise, swimming in the
sea to no avail!
Good Lord, man! I always thought exercise decreased the fat and
gave strength and muscle. And you want to increase your fat by
exercise?
I have no peace now, the whole day passes in lamentation.
No use dilating on it, as it has been before and will be after.
We weep before and after.
Our sweetest hours are those we fill with saddest thought.
I thought a little good time had come a few days back, but
that little streak, if it was not my imagination, has been
swallowed up by dark and unending trails of
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June 1935
If it is necessary and convenient, why not send Pavitra to the
Chief Medical Officer to discuss the matter with him ? It
depends mainly on the chief than on others.
It is not so pressing. If there were a general rule about the matter,
as in France, it would be all right; but a special favour is another
matter. We will think twice before we ask — especially as they
may look with disfavour on the idea of somebody coming in from
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outside into the closed medical field here.
June 1, 1935
From what you say about the subconscient, it would seem
that its conquest would lessen and minimise our troubles to
a great extent. But are there not
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February 1935
if such a theory will be practically realised. Past history
does not seem to prove it. In Krishna's time, no disciple of his
was a greater spiritual figure than the preceding Avatar
Rama, even though Krishna was an Avatar of a higher plane.
What is all this obsession of greater or less? In our Yoga we do not strive after greatness. It is not a question of Sri Krishna's disciples, but of the earth-consciousness — Rama was a mental man,
there is no touch of the overmind consciousness (direct) in anything he said or did, but what he did was done with the greatness
of the Avatar. But there have since been men who did live in touch
with the planes above
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August 1935
Today we got the result of M's urine exam. The poor pig
died of toxic symptoms. No definite light on the diagnosis.
Alas, poor pig!
August 1, 1935
X is strongly suspected of stealing some ideas from a novel
of J, given him for reading. Should he not have avoided it?
Of course he should. But if you knew much of literary and artistic
people, you would not be surprised at anything they do.
I advised her to get her book published now with your approval. In that case it has to be done by N, but that will at
once wound X who has taken so much trouble to go through
the M S.
I have no objection to J's doing what is proposed, provide
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March 1936
I find that you have forgotten to say anything about Jatin's
permission for Darshan.
Well, the permission can be given.
And please don't forget the letter you are writing — you can
write on a separate sheet as Jatin wants to see the original
very much. What letter? only remarks or lines, if they come out.
What letter ? Only remarks or lines, if they come
out.
March 20, 1936
"What letter” indeed! Very well, I won't call it a letter, call
it remarks or lines, so long as it is not your marginal! Perhaps you are waiting
for a Sunday?
I am waiting for a day when I won't have to race to finish everything
before 7 a.
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February 1935
N asked me to tell you that he felt your Presence and Force
in the evening very concretely. He does not want any medicine at all; he says that he used to have doubts before, but
now they have disappeared.
It is queer. All the force I am putting into it or almost all turns
into this subjective form — some objective result is there but still
slight, uncertain and slow. Of course the cause is apparent — he has
been accustomed to receive subjectively but not accustomed to
receive physically. It is not however convenient for the present purpose — except as a preparation for the more objective receptivity.
We are not anxious to stuff him with t