Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1934 — 1935

Letter ID: 522

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

December 2, 1934

Today I wrote a poem in the same chhanda: its developments and ramifications.

And what do you think of my handwriting – Bengali? Everyone is aghast at its rapid supramentalisation! I mean in the direction of high-born legibility?

Marvellous and miraculous! How did you manage it. I read now with a sort of gasping ease – I mean an ease which gasps with astonishment at its own existence. I used formerly to stop at every second line and wonder what the double deuce this or that word might be – but that is all over. Perhaps if you could communicate the secret of it by influence or otherwise, I might manage to make one-tenth of my own writing just barely legible – which would be at least a decimal relief to everybody.

The metre is very pretty and the poem too.