Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1934 — 1935

Letter ID: 660

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

December 10, 1935

I am reassured that you do understand. Forgive me that doubts come like this. I quite see that it’s the vital’s trick. I won’t trouble you to write at length to me. Only explain that saying of Sri Ramakrishna about gurur kripā [the Guru’s grace]. I have long felt I have got gurur kripā though till now I have seldom felt I have got Krishna’s kripā. But I thought Guru’s kripā will lead to Krishna as Guru and Krishna are really one and Krishna comes as the Guru to facilitate the introduction to himself. I don’t really question your ineffable grace and Mother’s matchless sweetness and the patience of both. But it is a prolonged drought which makes me burst into flashes of impatience. Your power also I cannot possibly doubt, seeing that even Nishikanta who knows so little English can write so many startlingly beautiful expressions in English rhymed free-verse, I should say, for I could not [scan?] his lines metrically.

Free verse (true free verse) is free from both metre and rhyme.

Nevertheless they are startling. I will henceforth try to bleat faith like a docile lamb and not roar doubts like a dying lion.

Good, especially as one must be the lamb of God before being His lion.