Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 4
Letter ID: 932
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
August 1938
Yes, you can sell the house for Rs. 1000 – the Mother gives her permission.
Esha can come here for the November darshan with you; Hashi also. They will, I presume, live with you in the Tresor – in fact we have at present no other place. Other things will be settled hereafter when things are ready. Esha would, I suppose, like to stay permanently, but that needs some arrangement before it can be decided and in any case it could be only when her mother comes here in February.
We take note of the case you speak of – the claim by a supposed secret message on behalf of an unknown and unacknowledged son. But how would that make any difference, even if the son were declared legitimate? Surendranath’s1 property was surely self-acquired and that kind of property can, I think, be freely disposed of by will and thus existence of a son could not invalidate the will – it being only in case of ancestral ... [incomplete]
1 Surendranath Bandopadhyay (1848-1925), the great Bengali politician, had left his property to his grand-daughter Esha. He founded the newspaper Bengalee.