Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 3
(Incomplete letter)
As for Tagore, well, as I said before, human motives and feelings are mixed. Your success has, let us say, opened his eyes or his ears to your music – that is how it acts on many. But may it not also be that having heard the song from Hasi1, though only one (especially if it was from a lovely singer as you say) he may have felt the evolution of the creative genius which he could no longer deny? And if that was helped by the same discovery by others and the desire to be in the swim, well, humans are humans, even a great poet. Anyhow, if even he has committed himself to such high tribute, why not accept it – no need to look a gift horse in the mouth, even if – ...