Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 705

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

February 13, 1936

Of course I bear the mad genius as a disciple. What you say about his dancing seems to be the general opinion – this excellence did not appear on the photograph which indicated an entire lack of the beauty and classic style of Udayshankar’s dances. But photographs are often deceptive. Of course it is quite possible to be an idiot and a genius at the same time – one can, that is to say, be the medium of a specialised and specific force which leaves the rest of the being brute stuff, unchanged and undeveloped. Genius is a phenomenon sui generis [of its own peculiar kind] and many anomalies occur in its constitution by Nature.

As to the offer of your tenant’s relative we had better wait till Prithwisingh comes. But the offer does not seem acceptable.