putting it in shape but was interrupted by a hundred things – for the present by the necessity of preparing “The Yoga of Divine Works” (Synthesis of Yoga, Vol. III) for publication. When it is finished I hope to complete the episode.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1934 — 1935
Letter ID: 675
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
July 2, 1932
It is certainly “symphony” and not “sympathy”; I don’t know whether the transformation was due to a slip of my pen or to a slip of Nolini’s typing finger.
The sonnet is a good one with a very effective clinching couplet; but I do not find the subject mundane.
I admit that the world is full of Houses and uncles, but I cherish in spite of them a hope that it will change. House after all is only staving off destiny with a broom handle and in doing so he is just acting “according to the nature of the beast” in the end his speeches do not very much matter. I hope there is no foundation for the suspicion about Subhash.
My “poem” is not a poem, but an episode in “Savitri, a legend and a symbol” and covers several hundred lines. I was putting it in shape but was interrupted by a hundred things – for the present by the necessity of preparing “The Yoga of Divine Works” (Synthesis of Yoga, Vol. III) for publication. When it is finished I hope to complete the episode.