Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 788

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

July 16, 1936

Yes, the poem is beautiful and it puts the Vaishnava bhāva into modern speech with a successful simplicity and intimacy which is quite unique. Nishikanta’s as always, is rich and beautiful, but of another manner.

Very glad to learn that you are able to keep up your wicket so well. These body line attacks are always a nasty trick of the returning [?] and they go on with it as long as they just can, for they are unrelenting and obstinate even in defeat; but one has only to be as stiff to them as possible and their action will get more and more tired until it stops altogether.

P.S. The harmonium is hopeless in the rainy season and it does not seem that anything can be done. The repairer said, when asked to set right, that it was impossible – the keys stick with the damp in this climate and unstick themselves again afterwards – any interference would spoil the instrument.