Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 4

Letter ID: 1013

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

October 2, 1944

What is there to comment on foolishness? It is a universal human failing. Your remark about Krishna was not so much foolish as desperately illogical. If Krishna was always and by nature cold and distant (Lord, what a discovery – Krishna of all people!), how could human devotion and aspiration come near him – and it would soon be like the North and South Pole, growing icier and icier, always facing each other but never seeing because of the earth’s bulge. Also, if Krishna did not want the human bhakta as well as the bhakta wanting him, who could get at him? He would be always sitting on the snows of the Himalayas like Shiva. History describes him otherwise and he is usually charged with being too warm and sportive.

Nirod told the Mother about K. in my presence, but I did not catch everything. I understood that he wanted a one-storied house and would bring a doctor (or was that my subconscient’s imagination), etc. Mother was speaking of a house of the kind, but doubted whether it would not be more than Rs. 30 rent, the sum named by K. That is all I know about it. I suppose something will emerge. I will ask Mother about it tomorrow – if I remember.

P.S. It appears Amrita is to give information about the house.