Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 735

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

May 5, 1936

I have written to Prithwisingh today giving him all the necessary information item by item. At present I am even beyond the reach of suicide for house-worries. So I trust I will pull through – thanks to Krishna’s dance and your grace and Mother’s. An instance in point.

Last evening a melody tinkled and I sat down after a meditative meditation with Mother in the evening and Jo, the enclosed came through. What do you think of it? Symbolic? Mystic? Or both? Or none? Lyric-dramatic? Anyhow I was in great joy after writing it – as I did not intend at all to write this. It came through Krishna’s dance perhaps. Nirod and others are charmed by it. And the music that has come is lovely. Please tell me your opinion to buck me up.

Your poem [Durashi] is indeed exceedingly beautiful. I don’t know that it can be called symbolic or mystic exactly, though if it is either, it would be the first, but it has a vital beauty supported by a psychic emotion which makes it very exquisite.