Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 4
Don’t trouble about the article if it needs too much considering. Consign it to the waste paper basket. I don’t want to take much of your time. I can ask Nolini to write an article on you for Aria. He is the man who can write a proper article. I knew I was not fit for such a task. It is because I thought I might serve you through such an article – a personal article I mean, the only type I feel free in – that I accepted their invitation. If you approve I can ask Nolini to send them an article on yourself. Perhaps it is worthwhile? If not well, let us forget about it.
Well, what I am considering is just this, whether it would not be wiser, as far as concerns England or America, to start impersonally with the philosophical side and the side of the Yoga, and leave the person a little behind the scene for the present, until people there are ready as individuals for the personal touch; that is the course we have been following up to now. In India it is different, for here there is another kind of general mentality and there is the tradition of the Guru and the Shishya.
I don’t know about Nolini writing for the Aria. I suppose Mrs Gertrude Sen wanted an article from you personally, a personal article and not a general article on the subject.