SITE OF SRI AUROBINDO & THE MOTHER
      
Home Page | Works | Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Correspondence (1933-1967)

Fragment ID: 4176

See letter itself (letter ID: 436)

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

March 23, 1934

□  Hide link-numbers of differed places

ADDENDUM

(It is but fair to the Reader to show the other side of the picture. We give below a letter of Sri Aurobindo’s about Rabindranath Tagore, written on 24 March 1934 – five years before the start of World War II, and seven years before Tagore’s death.)1

It is queer the intellectuals go on talking of creation while all they stand for is collapsing into the Néant without their being able to raise a finger to save it. What are you going to create and from what material? Besides, what use is it if a Hitler with his cudgel or a Mussolini with his castor-oil can come at any moment and wash it out or beat it into dust?

 

1 Part of this letter was published in the Centenary Edition (Vol. 26, p. 346). This is the complete text.

Back

2 SABCL, volume 22; Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 2; CWSA, volumes 28, 35; Letters of Sri Aurobindo. 2 Ser. these

Back

3 SABCL, volume 22; Letters of Sri Aurobindo. 2 Ser. What are they

Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 2; CWSA, volumes 28, 35: What the devil are they

Back

4 Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 2; CWSA, volumes 28, 35: and of what

Back

5 SABCL, volume 22; Letters of Sri Aurobindo. 2 Ser. is it all if

Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 2; CWSA, volumes 28, 35: if

Back

6 Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 2; CWSA, volumes 28, 35: come and

Back

Current publication:

Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh: Correspondence (1933-1967).- Mysore: Mira Aditi, 1998.- 183 p.

Other publications:

Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga // SABCL.- Volume 22. (≈ 28 vol. of CWSA).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1971.- 502 p.

[A letter: ] Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo to Dilip / edited by Sujata Nahar, Shankar Bandyopadhyay.- 1st ed.- In 4 Volumes.- Volume 2. 1934 – 1935.- Pune: Heri Krishna Mandir Trust; Mysore: Mira Aditi, 2003.- 405 p.

Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Himself and the Ashram // CWSA.- Volume 35. (≈ 26 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2011.- 658 p.

Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga. I // CWSA.- Volume 28. (≈ 22 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2012.- 590 p.

Sri Aurobindo. Letters of Sri Aurobindo: In 4 Series.- Second Series [On Yoga].- Bombay: Sri Aurobindo Sircle, 1949.- 599 p.