Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 696

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

1936 (?)

Yesterday at Pavitra’s I met Mother. [She asked] to sit on a chair – but I sat at her feet and then came back in a delight. Hence this poem [came] forth in a song – then and there in a few minutes. It is in my new metre – with free enjambments.

Exceedingly beautiful – the metre also is admirable, adapted to express this kind of flow of feeling...