Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1934 — 1935

Letter ID: 676

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

Undated

Moni’s “poem” is of a very inferior stuff and certainly not the kind of writing that ought to come from here, but it does not pass the last limits. I have, at least hitherto, been tolerant up to a certain point, leaving the rest to people’s own evolution. But sometimes they seem to evolve in the wrong direction; I suppose I shall have to be more strict as to certain things in the future.

Your poem shows always an increasing power to express thought and feeling with subtlety (both of rhythm and expression) and ease and force. Certainly, to express is not all; but I am not inclined to regard it dubiously – done in the right way and from the right source, it helps to bring out what is in the inner being and to clarify the rest.

As for the “meannesses,” they are the very substance of these movements of the nature – I refer to that range of the “little vital” which is occupied with philandering on one side and the animal passion on the other (these are the two borders of one and the same region); it is a part of the nature in which... [incomplete]