Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1

Letter ID: 322

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

1933 (?)

Khitish Sen’s translation of the opening lines of the Vedantins Prayer is magnificently done. He has quite caught the tone of the original, its austerity and elevation of thought and feeling and severe restraint of expression with yet a certain massiveness of power in it,– these at least were what tried to come out when I wrote it, and they are all unmistakably and nobly there in his rendering. If he can complete it without falling from the high force of this opening, it will be a chef d’œuvre. I notice he has got the exactly corresponding verse movement also. Yours is a fine poem, but I agree with you that this is at once poetic in a high degree and renders more closely the innate character of the... [incomplete].