Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7244

Aspiration [1]

Jyoti says formerly she used to aspire for beautiful things, etc. instead of letting herself go. Now she remains passive – and this poem is the result. Any answer?

There is no incompatibility between aspiring and letting the thing come through. The aspiration gives the necessary intensity so that what comes has a better chance of being a true transcription. In this case probably the pain she felt in the neck etc. was a proof of some fatigue in the physical parts which spoiled the transmission.

30 July 1936