Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1934 — 1935

Letter ID: 548

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

January 13, 1935

I send you four of your pages corrected. My progress is slow but I am taking more pains to save time hereafter.

I have read the article and Girija’s comic flight from an answer. Everything is beside the question except the main point which, I gather seems to be that nobody can sincerely find Dilip’s poetry readable except one “guarded” admirer – who is he and why is his praise alone allowed to be akṛtrim [sincere] – all other praise must be insincere?

By the way what are the two parts of minati [supplication]? I don’t know the etymology of the word. And are śabda [sound], mandir [temple] etc. made up of parts that can be separated as Tagore has done? Queer!