Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 4
Please look at the Upadhi Patra – do – guru by Rasik Vidyabhushan. He is now the head of the Vaishnav Samaj of Bengal and is reputed to be one of the most learned men among savants. He is 105 now and he gave his blessings etc. of his own accord. I saw him at his residence in Calcutta. He looks still radiant and is very charming. Has written a number of books on Krishna and Govranga of which two he gave me. In the preface of a book of his on Govranga I read he has been suffering from insomnia for years...
(...) published in a few months.
What about Synthesis? They are all asking me. I collected the money as needed for Synthesis you know, as they would have refused to contribute had it been asked in the name of Analysis of which all are tired, what?
I hope you are not referring to the whole colossal mass of the Synthesis – though that too may be ready for publication before the next world war (?) or after the beginning of the Satya Yuga (new World Order?). If you mean the Yoga of Works, I am writing or trying to write four or five additional chapters for it. I hope they will be ready in a reasonable time; but my daily time is short and chapters are long. In the absence of exact prophetic power, that is all I can say.
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