in them? They are coming, coming – no “No admission” to them now. They are not humanity.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1934 — 1935
Letter ID: 523
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
December 5, 1934
Barinda1 has just written me a letter which I have mislaid and will send you tomorrow. He has started a Yoga-school! Fancy that! A book also – to me, one for Library and one for yourself enclosed. He wants me to send him the addresses of some celebrities in Europe to whom this book will be sent. But why?
God knows! From what he writes it would appear that he wants certificates from them or advertisement-utilisable eulogies.
But what an idea, good heavens. A Yoga school – a class, a blackboard (with the gods on it?), “interesting cases”! a spiritual clinic, what? What has happened to Barin’s wits and especially to his sense of humour? Too much Statesman? marriage? writing for a living? age?
I open the book and come across a delicious misprint (page 60) “The wounded dear dripping blood passes its long and tortured path to escape the hunter which (?) is ever after it.” It is humanity who is the “dear.” Dear, dear! poor wounded darling!
May I see Mother tomorrow for a couple of minutes with the money? When?
Today there are birthdays and departures, so Mother will not be free till 12.30 or quarter to one. If it is not inconvenient for you, you can come at that time.
Now for the poems – the greater reality than Wounded Humanity, is it not? Do you not find a new note of simplicity in them? They are coming, coming – no “No admission” to them now. They are not humanity.
Yes, they are very lucid and flowing – you have got your boat into full stream.
1 Barindra Kumar Ghose: Sri Aurobindo’s younger brother, a revolutionary who was interned at the Andaman islands for about a decade, in the famous Alipore Bomb Case. Then lived for a few years in Pondicherry with Sri Aurobindo. In 1928 he went back to Bengal.