Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1937

Letter ID: 1874

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

March 13, 1937

What about my book, Sir? Haven’t decided where you will begin and where you will end? or keeping it for Sunday?

My dear Sir, if you write a Mahabharat, you can’t expect the answer however scrappy to be finished in one or two nights among a mass of other work? Nous progressâmes¹ – that’s the state of things.

Still feeling bad – not for the loss of the centre, but don’t know exactly.

No? you don’t feel অনাথ²?

Under P, you wrote: “They are almost all nervous thieves”? Gracious!

I didn’t. I wrote “neurasthenics” – neurasthenic Warriors, sir!

And about Nishikanta – “Result of – or of custom?”

Customs (British). Reference to their outing with Dilip.

¹ We have made some progress (i.e. “I have made a start on your letter”).

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² anāth: orphan.

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