or for which in the form they have there, I cannot accept
responsibility.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Letters
Fragment ID: 6515
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Sri Aurobindo — Unknown addressee
September 1931
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About Punamchand M. Shah [12]1
Pondicherry, September 1931
He (Punamchand) can let Narainji have Veda
translations, but I do not want them widely circulated because they are a first
draft, not final. Messages and letters he may have. But the evening talks must
not get about. I have not seen these reports and therefore they are not
authorised, and there must be any number of things in them which either ought
not to be published or for which in the form they have there, I cannot accept
responsibility.
1 Punamchand Mohanlal Shah (born 1898), of Patan, Gujarat, met Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry in 1919. Four years later he became a member of his household. Between 1927 and 1931, he spent much of his time in Gujarat trying to collect money for the newly founded Ashram. In August 1927 Sri Aurobindo wrote three letters to Punamchand on fearlessness, work and money, which were published in 1928 as chapters 3, 4 and 5 of The Mother. Here thirteen other letters to Punamchand on fund-raising and other subjects are reproduced.
2 Champaklal’s Treasures, 2008 ed.: public