Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1934 — 1935

Letter ID: 595

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

May 9, 1935

What you say is perfectly correct. The first two of your four points are brought out clearly enough, (but not didactically) in the poem and very beautifully put. The third and fourth as put by you in the letter are more implied than expressed, but the essential idea in them comes out all the same. Of course, the French saying “tout pardonner” does not express so much a personal forgiveness as a general charity which condemns nothing because it understands everything – so that agrees very well with the gist of your poem – which is very beautiful.