Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 730

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

April 26, 1936

I have retyped. Only in the last line but two in the first page please note. How to put in “antagonist” as a friend to metre here? eh?

The “to” after “resolute” was supposed to have been erased. “Antagonist” then goes in quite easily.

Please let me know what you didn’t have time to explain last night about my being too imageful and need to tone down á la modern version.

That was not what I meant. I meant I had no time to explain in each case why I made the corrections – as I very often do.

How did you like this song though when I sang, eh?

Very fine.

I worked very hard at an article all day – (no lolling alas) – for the Ramakrishna Centenary.

Mother said my meditation too improved! Joyous what? Though how it had the time to improve when I worked all the time, eh? Strange, what? But I do feel very devoted to her, truly Guru, joking apart. That is surely not of bad augury, meditation or no meditation, what?

Yes, she told me she had a very good meditation with you. That of course is the main thing – or the “mainspring” – for where devotion is, all else can come!