Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 837

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

October 7, 1936

All right. It is better to know beforehand. And besides, I was thinking I wasn’t likely to be over-enthusiast about Jawaharial’s personality as I have found, repeatedly, to my cost that those whose interest in spiritual things is lukewarm quickly pall on me. I have always [?]. So unless Jawaharlal takes [up] Yoga, which is unlikely just now anyhow, I am not likely to get on famously with him.

God! And if he did it, what a horrible hullabaloo there would be all over India. Why his Socialist friends would come and throw bombs at the Tresor till it and you were demolished. So don’t be rash.

Well, well, such is life’s transient enthusiasms and maladjustments springing up from nowhere. Better of course would be a little adjustment with the Divine, But that cannot, I expect, be hoped for for a long time to come. Vairagya comes easily enough but anuraga [admiring love, devotion] is difficult, what? Last night, for instance, I tried to meditate from 9 p.m. but felt so drowsy that slept for ten hours, strange! For I sleep much less when I work hard – and usually I work hard enough you know. Night before last I worked till 1 a.m. in the morning.

I send you for final revision the last two translations; suggest some improvements. I have made some alterations you’ll find. So please read again and see if these read well.

They seem all right.

I will stop writing English verses now and turn more to singing plus reading Shakespeare to enter more into the spirit of the English tongue and its own native atmosphere of words and poetic lilt.