Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 789

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

July 19, 1936

For my music syllabus at which I have been working hard of late I am including one or two translations of songs given. This song [Home of Bliss] I translated this morning – the song that brought my father to the zenith of his fame as a composer in the swadeshi days – the song that every Bengali now knows. Please correct my translation, I have had to be just a little free here and there to make it sound at home in English. I don’t know if I have succeeded.

Please read it out to Mother after your corrections. I’d love to sing it to her tomorrow.

It is a very beautiful song. The translation is a little free, but it reads very well in English.