Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 865

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

November 20, 1936

Your letter has made us all cheerful like the mysterious skylark – through our happiness that there are some mysteries beyond even you!

But a little help. Mrs. Sarcar practically declared she would come with Professor this evening for a little music. I tried my best to decline – politely – but parrying and ducking – but she went home as she always does. Truly I am in no mood now – am too busy with work. I had thought of giving one evening to Vidya and Professor together and be done with it – but now I will have to give two. lam sorry, guru, but forgive the past sins of a singer and grant me two days’ permission (with positive force of course) this evening and the 22nd evening as Vidya etc. will surely press, so I anticipate.

That is quite all right.

Please believe me when I say that I do not feel at all eager to sing to big audiences and I assure you I will invite very few people. I do want to do Yoga proper and such soirees I understand interfere with Yoga.

In excess they may. No objection either to the Aristotelian golden mean or to Buddha’s middle way.

Yet I will have to sing a day or two to Vidya, etc. For which I crave your indulgence. I am feeling rather cheerful today. I trust it will last. I feel a burgeoning aspiration anyhow – my extremely hard work the last few days had a cumulative effect, I suspect! I have finished the preface etc. yesterday – still a few hours work remaining which I hope to finish today. Do see Nishikanta’s beauty twin to the lovely Hindi laghu guru song. (Dewas Rani gave it to me a fortnight ago – I don’t see them at all now-a-days by the way.)

Very beautiful. He has certainly a most extraordinary genius for rhythm as well as for a fine play of vivid energy and beauty in his poetry.