At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo

03 May 1934

MYSELF: What you have written about writing is clear to me, but I don’t know how to carry it out. As soon as I sit to write I am lost in it. Suppose I stop writing for two days; the thoughts still go on spinning in the brain. How to stop them, regulate them, harmonise them? If the mind is preoccupied with these thoughts, then what good accrues from it? So it may be better to suspend the writing for the time being; I didn’t want my sadhana to be jeopardised at any cost. You have done well by sending a note of warning, otherwise I would have thought that other writers too suffer in this way.

SRI AUROBINDO: If you cannot get rid of the ideas it may be best to finish off the thing.

(3.5.34)