Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 1
Letter ID: 321
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
1933 (?)
I send you back your father’s poem in the translation with a closer rendering of the cloud and grove lines to replace my sublimation of Fried Das. Khitish Sen’s renderings of Mirabai are very good and I have only made a few verbal alterations.
You have made a very fine and true rendering of the “Vedantin’s Prayer”1. Perhaps so high and rocky a person as 
the Vedantin, who is very much of a converted Titan, would not have thought of such a sweet and luxurious word as kusumi [flowering] in the midst of his ascent and struggle, but these few alterations do not make any real difference to the spirit. There is quite sufficient nobility and power in your translation. With that, it seems to me as literal as it can be.
I enclose the Mother’s chit for the pillow-cases.
By the way, I forgot to say anything about the Conversations for Harin,– Mother will send a copy... [incomplete].
1 A poem by Sri Aurobindo (Collected Poems, 5:49).