Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 1
Your sadness is without any real cause. Far from being without interest in your music, my interest was so great that I sat up during my time of sleep translating the “Saraswati” so that it might be in time for the occasion,– as I could not make any time for it in my working hours. And I had already 
written to someone who asked the question that the music yesterday (your song especially and Sahana’s) had even exceeded in feeling and significance anything we had yet had and that he was right in feeling in it the effective invocation of the earth-consciousness for the Divine’s descent. As for our expression to you of our appreciation, it was delayed – for the reason the Mother has told you – not denied. Written words are pale and lifeless things when one has to express the feelings raised by superb music and seem hardly to mean anything – not being able to convey what is beyond word and mere mental form – that is, at least, what I have felt and why I always find it a little difficult to write anything about music.