Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1934 — 1935

Letter ID: 558

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

February 4, 1935

Voilà, je m’en réjouis [There, I am delighted]. See back!! Tagore promises. I had written to him a thundering letter: “Your life or the preface” sort of browbeating – the bluff worked. He is terrified into prefacing.

Truly I am very glad. I wired to Tagore and Saratchandra to-day exultantly. I have been receiving some firm letters of encomium on my novel, poetry, etc. – from strangers and yesterday from a notable connoisseur savant. A short postcard from a rising (truly good) poet I enclose. Also the well known poet Jatin Bagchi as well as Prabodh Sen write to me that there was no chhandapatan [break in rhythm] in jāgto nā pipāsā [if the thirst had not awakened in you] which is a triumph. Everywhere except in Krishna-quest. But attendons [let us wait] – He may have something up his sleeve. Qui sait? [who knows?] What?

Very good indeed. As for Krishna, I don’t know whether he wears sleeves, but I am sure he has much up them or else up somewhere waiting for you.

But sorry no chance for translation tonight. [Corpus holed?] under paper. Yadi ([?] correspondence) jāgto nā pipāsā!