Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1

Letter ID: 345

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

March 1933 (?)

Buddhadev can come; but you speak of a room. In the Ashram? That would hardly be possible, since he is neither a sadhak nor an intending sadhak, nor even an embryonic sadhak. Perhaps you hope he will tumble into Yoga or Yoga will tumble into him? but these are things possible but not to be counted on beforehand. If your description of him is accurate, he must be a complex nature and not prone to tumble.

Buddhadev has certainly remarkable powers; there are only two things that he has to acquire still, if he is to fulfil your prophecy, more of the “inevitable” in his language and rhythm, a greater power of what has been called architectonics in poetry – something that corresponds to design in painting and the arrangement of masses in architecture... [incomplete].