Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1938

Letter ID: 2116

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

June 1, 1938

Why can’t you understand oceans and rocks aspiring to winged release? Haven’t you read Tagore’s Balākā where the earth, hills, rocks yearn to fly also, seeing the flight of a flock of cranes? Surely you have!

I am not an expert in Tagore. In English, rocks might just manage to aspire to be birds, but it would be regarded as fanciful – if oceans started that sort of thing, it would be regarded as beginning to be excessive.