Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1

Letter ID: 138

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

July 2, 1931

Yes, your poem is very good, as usual; and the metre is very beautiful. I admire, admire.

I took drishtihārā as “blind”; I am not versed enough in the subtleties of the language to pronounce whether the average reader would find it ambiguous; perhaps he would. But if alakshita [unnoticed] is clearer, it is less vividly poetic.