Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 3
Letter ID: 890
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
January 7, 1937
Today the musical inspiration has come back at long last: I have sung with gusto and verve this morning for an hour or more and this evening for about half an hour. I will sing for half an hour more after meditation. Two hours a day will be enough – but not less – and singing is an activity you can hardly do unless you feel like singing. That is why I had to trouble you. I hope this will continue.
I am working quite [a] lot at revising a French translation of Sri Ramakrishna’s sayings by a Swiss lady – given me by Herbert1. So my poetry had to stop what with singing and revising. A week later I hope to start poetry again.
I feel well and tranquil enough in my Dilipian way and delightfully free from all wrong impulses – (of late I fed myself and people a little – not too much still – from tomorrow this too I will stop) – and have done a good deal of reading as usual. I send you the first really good review of Suryamukhi that has just appeared. My savant friend Professor Mukherji wrote verses once (quite good metres) 
that is why he has seized what many haven’t so far. But he perhaps doesn’t know yet that Suryamukhi has changed (or at least modified) the hostility of a number of anti-Dilips. Anyhow read the review: it is good and not a perfunctory sort of tribute I think, what?
Glad the Rain of Heaven has produced the musical spirit – hope it will flourish.
A very good review. Sūryamukhi seems a success from the point of view of worth having appreciation.
1 Jean Herbert (1897-1980) – a Swiss national working in the League of Nations. He was translating Sri Aurobindo’s The Life Divine into French with a team of translators.