Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1934 — 1935

Letter ID: 549

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

January 15, 1935

I send you only two pages more as you have three pages with you still.

My poems “Poet and Rishi” and “Bidayotsabi” and Nishikanta’s third book of poems are still with you. Can you now return them?

I shall fish them out and send them. The translation has been interrupted because people have gone letter-mad again. One sadhak sends me four letters in two days covering pages and pages of foolscap and all saying the same thing.

O Tautology, what are the charms

That writers have found in thy face?

I see only letters on letters

[Written at?] a terrible pace.

(Confidential by the way. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings or pride of authorship. This is only a private groan.)

I send all the poetry I have yet found. But I have not yet found Bidayotsabi.