asked for. You might fish it out from Nolini if he can find it. I probably paid no attention to it as mere Paresh could have conveyed no meaning to my mind.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 1
Letter ID: 387
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
August 17, 1933
I am afraid I don’t see how I can see William Arthur Moore – how can I extend to him so extraordinary a privilege (since I see nobody) which I would not have conceded to Sarat Chatterji? You say Barin certifies him as a bhakta – but Barin’s language is apt to be vivid and exaggerated; he probably means only an admirer. I think he must be answered that certainly he would [have] been allowed a meeting with me if I had been coming out but the entire seclusion has been taken as a rule for Sri Aurobindo’s sadhana and it may not be subjected to exception so long as the rule is in force. If he is really a bhakta that will give him a ray of distant hope and if he isn’t, the impression made does not very much matter. Barin surely exaggerates the power of the publicist – after all he is only the editor of the Statesman – but even otherwise that is not the main consideration. By the way why have you transmogrified Moore into Jones? – there was a Jones there but he has departed and yielded the place to Moore.
As for this Paresh, he wants to be in the Ashram, it would appear (yogāshrame yābār ichchhā1), but I don’t see how that can be conceded. If it is merely darshan in November he wants it can be granted. I don’t remember his letter – I suppose Nolini may – and don’t know what he wrote or asked for. You might fish it out from Nolini if he can find it. I probably paid no attention to it as mere Paresh could have conveyed no meaning to my mind.
Very glad of the success of your metres but that was sure.
1 “He wants to be in the ashram.”