Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1934 — 1935

Letter ID: 590

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

May 1, 1935

Mother will speak to Nolini, but you might speak to Nolini yourself also, as Mother might forget, there are so many things she has to think about. Pulin has been told to take only the flowers that fall; it did not occur to anybody that he would go up the staircase.

Mother never said Anilkumar was a better painter than Nishikanta, which would be obviously absurd. Mother spoke only about some sketches of the place they had gone to – Anilkumar’s were carefully done, while Nishikanta only put down a few indications, so she preferred Anilkumar’s. But a painter cannot be judged by his sketches – only by his finished work. What extraordinary interpretations are put on casual remarks of the Mother!

The poem is beautiful – there is certainly no apotheosis of [pain?] in it, though that with a little symbol and mystery could easily be made “esoteric.”

Herewith the corrected typescript.