Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 4
Letter ID: 985
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
November 17, 1943
(Answered by Sri Aurobindo)
Mother, I know I should not go daily to pranam you now as the number of visitors is increasing daily.
That is all right. There is no reason why you should not come daily.
But as I leave on the 25th of this month, I want to have as much of your blessing for my trying times in Calcutta – also because I want to see if I can get a few thousand rupees for the Synthesis of Yoga (Sisir told me the sum often thousand rupees is needed for it) and for this your force is necessary as by myself I can’t do much. Since I have to go to Calcutta I should try to be of some service to you. I will try but your blessing is specially necessary, you see.
I suppose he means for the whole of the Synthesis of Yoga; but that is still immensely far from being ready. It is only the Yoga of Works that is nearly ready for publication.
Dr. Sisir Maitra is changing, I think. Shower on him your special force, Mother, as he is a really good man though a little limited because of his intellectual dogmatism. I don’t argue with him as that rubs him the wrong way. But you know all about him. He is very fond of me and I want to help him to move towards you if I can.
About my last interview with Sri Aurobindo I have not yet received his final answer. Can he (omitting the portions he doesn’t like to sanction for publication) permit me to translate into Bengali for the second edition of my book Tirthankar which has sold very well – though Tara-pada1 has not sent me a farthing to be offered to your feet. My other books are selling and I have offered the sale proceeds to you but Tarapada is a very strange fellow. I sent him three hundred rupees for two other books (the cost) yet he sends me nothing to be offered to you. Shall I speak to Nolini about it?
You can speak to Nolini.
As for the interview, I am afraid I may mention the answer sent through Nirod. Most of it is unpublishable at the present time and for a fairly long time to come; very little would escape from the [damner’s] pencil. There are many subjects on which I have carefully avoided publicity up to now and the taboo continues; when it is lifted it will mean that the supramental is beginning to wave its tail very vigorously over the earth’s surface.
1 Tarapada Patra was in charge of Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, the publisher of Sri Aurobindo’s books and Ashram books. He later settled in the Ashram.