Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 3
I am so glad indeed. Trust Sotuda will be faithful to you for this grace and offer his all for your service and Mother’s. He rings true. And an auditor to boot. I am glad also you have given him a room in Windows upstairs, for he has lived in great comfort, even luxury, all his life – his Ballygunj house (he got built himself) is beautiful they all say. Besides he is a little pravīn [aged] and his sons will stand him in good stead as he will need some looking after I feel. But all will be well I know – since the Windows room is airy and tight is there in plenty. I have written to him today. Also to Vidya that you will answer her. I have given her a little (just a hint) advice not to pray for her children’s health alone. I hope your force will change her too as it changed Sotuda. Do write to her. She is really very good it seems.
I am all right again. Last night I had a cup of cocoa with Amiya and talked about Sotuda mostly whom I dreamed. Of late I have been thinking mostly of his calamity. But it is good in that he has got his grace through it in a sense. All are glad he is coming and I am so glad (mischievously) that the Calcuttian bourgeoisie will be mightily shocked and many will turn aghast at Pondicherrian havoc among the self-complacent gentlefolk whose only dream is to live the life of gay senses, what? Truly, Sotuda’s coming here will cause some stir – for the ripples of the shock will well travel rather widely to distant shores beyond Bengal too, I think – Radhakumud, Radhakamal, Dhurjati, Somnath, Suniti Chatterji – and heaps of others will feel a gnawing malaise at this satyendrian vairagya, I am sure.
I have recaptured the colour thanks to your grace as the “doveyness” has been disturbed by no fresh wrong impulse or movement. The dreams too have not been bad either. Am doing a little japa too. Read a lot of poetry as well. And worked also. Will resume work tonight. Now to japa 
and meditation of you and Mother. Feel very grateful for your grace to poor Sotuda. How infinitely grateful he will be to you?
Glad to know the colour is back – hope it will remain steadily blooming.
Sotuda is a man in whom one can place reliance – his heart is good and his mind straight and steady.
From what you say we ought to have in the papers when he comes headlines like “A violent shock in Calcutta! Ballygunj commotion! Disappearance of a solid citizen into the Supramental Void! Widespread Consternation! Elegiac meeting to be held at the earliest opportunity – Dr. Radhakumud Mukherji will preside.” But Indian journalism does not know how to make the most of a sensation, we are slow and backward people.