The letters reveal Nirod's unique relationship with his guru. The exchanges are suffused with a special humour.
Sri Aurobindo : corresp.
Nirodbaran's correspondence with Sri Aurobindo began in February 1933 and continued till November 1938, when Sri Aurobindo injured his leg and Nirod became one of his attendants. The entire correspondence, which was carried on in three separate notebooks according to topics - private, medical, and literary - is presented in chronological order, revealing the unique relationship Nirod enjoyed with his guru, replete with free and frank exchanges and liberal doses of humour. Covering a wide range of topics, both serious and light-hearted, these letters reveal the infinite care Sri Aurobindo devoted to the spiritual development of his disciple.
THEME/S
If this disgust is due to tamas, will you tell me how to drive this tamas out?
Use your will.
Is then inspiration the source of all ideas?
At any rate in poetry it is.
December 6, 1933
Last night as I was meditating in a half-sleepy state, I had a vision of a most gorgeous auroral display of colours in the eastern horizon, one colour being added to and superimposed on the other in a quick succession; the sort of display one sees before the sun rises, only infinitely grander. I don't remember whether your image flashed through before or after the vision. Has it any significance?
The play of colours is the play of forces and on the east indicates something that is beginning or about to begin.
December 27, 1933
Mother, your reproachful look in the morning put me out of all good cheer. Is it due to a lingering desire in me?
That is an imagination, as usual. There was no reproach. Of course Mother saw that you had been touched by the desire, but there was no feeling of reproach in her.
The Divine pushes me to such tests when he knows me so well—and then I get a none-too-happy look from you!
The imagination of a none-too-happy look! I repeat there was no reproach.
Would you advise me not to go to X's aid in her illness?
I can't very well say that. I could only say so if there was somebody else who was willing to help her.
For some time past I have been feeling as if I were receding from the Divine, or is it that the Divine is receding from me?
The Divine does not recede. For yourself, you are probably not so much receding as getting into the part where there is the difficulty. I mean you have projected yourself from the mind into the vital. It would have been better if you had drawn back into the psychic—but since you are there, you have only to force your way through it to the psychic gates.
I want to offer you the best cheese available here and a tin of biscuits. I hope you will accept?
Certainly we accept
December 30, 1933
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