Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga. Volume I

Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume I - Part 4

Fragment ID: 10508

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

March 24, 1934

Tagore, of course, belonged to an age which had faith in its ideas and whose very denials were creative affirmations. That makes an immense difference. Your strictures on his later development may or may not be correct, but this mixture even was the note of the day and it expressed a tangible hope of a fusion into something new and true – therefore it could create. Now all that idealism⁴ has been smashed to pieces by the immense adverse Event and everybody is busy exposing its weakness, but nobody knows what to put in its place. A mixture of scepticism and slogans, “Heil Hitler” and the Fascist salute and Five-Year Plan and the beating of everybody into one amorphous shape, a disabused denial of all ideals on one side and on the other a blind shut-my-eyes and shut-everybody’s-eyes plunge into the bog in the hope of finding some firm foundation there, will not carry us very far. And what else is there? Until new spiritual values are discovered, no great enduring creation is possible.

¹ SABCL, volume 22; Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh; Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 2; Letters of Sri Aurobindo. 2 Ser. As for your question, Tagore

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² Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 2: may be correct, but this mixture even was the note

Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh: too, was the note

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³ Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh; Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 2; SABCL, volume 26: fusion

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⁴ Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 2: that

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⁵ Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 2: and its weaknesses exposed

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⁶ SABCL, volume 22; Letters of Sri Aurobindo. 2 Ser. and the Five-Year-Plan

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