Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1934 — 1935
Your long letter to hand; I fear it is full of confusions and fallacies and mixing up of things that are very desperate. I felt inclined to go for you with a logical club, knock you down, roll you over and generally wipe the [mental?] floor with you; but it would have been a long operation and I am drowned today with urgent things. I have to finish an answer to some questions put to me by Madame P. (the half-finished answer to which was lying with me for a week), as she is soon going; other things also that have waited for still longer but refuse to wait any more. I shall see from tomorrow whether some kind of more compact unravelling of your mental perplexities 
and confusions can’t be managed by a stern self-suppression of my more aggressive instincts. Read the letter and diary of your friend – beautifully idealistic, but it does not make allowance for the hard struggle of the spiritual emergence and leaps to fulfilment with a too radiant and ethereal sweep. But the musical analysis is very interesting and much more illuminative than the superficialities one ordinarily comes across. By the way did you hear of the Governor’s comment on the music to Pavitra, “I have listened to much Indian music, but never to anything that could at all equal that!” A thoroughgoing eulogy – what? and obviously sincere.