now long overpassed. I do not care to have it published.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 1
Letter ID: 91
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
March 16, 1930
(About a book Dilip was preparing.)
I return the remaining Mss.
(1) I have corrected more extensively the conversation, adding one or two things where the thought was insufficient or not clear. The note about Yogic Sadhan may be omitted.
(2) The two poems, “Who?” and “In the Moonlight” can be taken. I think it is these two you wanted to include in the book – I have not got your note by me at the moment.
(3) The two Conversations1, 9 (on Divine Love) and 14 (on Art and Yoga), can also be included in the book.
(4) The Letter was not written by me; it is not well expressed and the ideas in it belong to an order of thought that I have now long overpassed. I do not care to have it published.
(5) I do not know where you got the facts in your account of my life; but after starting to correct it I had to give up the attempt in despair. It is chock full of errors and inaccuracies: this cannot be published. As for the account of my spiritual experience, I mean of the Bombay affair, somebody must have inflicted on you a humorous caricature of it. This too cannot “go.” The best will be to omit all account or narrative and say – at not too much length, I would suggest – what you think it necessary to say about me.
(6) You will naturally have to say something to account for the presence of two “Conversations with the Mother” in the book. Of course, you will send what you have to say on this point for the Mother’s approval and mine.
That, I think, is all.
I did not send you the Mss before because, so far as my part in the book was concerned, the time for the publication did not seem to me to have come. Besides, the form (after all, only a surface talk [?]) seemed to me too slight for a first introduction of my teaching to the general public. But now it will do.
1 Conversations with the Mother is the title of a book by Mother which contains a few talks she had with a few disciples every Sunday evening in 1929. These talks took place at Dilip’s residence and were first published in 1931.