Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 746

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

May 25, 1936

(On a poem by Jyotirmayi)

I find it exceedingly beautiful and not at all obscure and the images very cogent. Of course if you ask me to translate them into intellectual terms I can’t, but mystical images translated into intellectual terms lose all their cogency which is subjective and suggestive, not objective and precise. From that point of view the more I read her poem, the more I am struck not only by the extreme suggestive beauty but the mystic compulsiveness of the words and images. Somehow she has got into touch with an original zone of inspiration – if she can carry it farther (not only repeating or imitating this success), she will be able to do something new and quite her own.