Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 749

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

May 27, 1936

I did not know that it was already in the Press – there is no necessity of countermanding it. There was no objection to the dedication, only I thought the adding of the poems to the dedication might stress too much in view of the Mother’s wish to remain unpublic, as it were, and withdrawn from a too general gaze. The printing of the book may proceed and there need be no countermanding order.

Why mind the feministic emphasis when your conscience is clear of all anti-feminism? The involuntary sin of being a male is there of course but since you have done so much to atone for it? To be more serious, angularities and discords even if of a small character, are trying I know to the nerves but to overcome the nervous reaction and meet them with a calm good humour is, I think, the best way to frustrate their pressure.