Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 4

Letter ID: 1010

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

September 17, 1944

I think you have done well in deciding not to take up X. again. The only thing of value in her is her musical possibility, but without seriousness, discipline or any depth of feeling this is not likely to develop; she has too much self-will, waywardness and flightiness which tends towards hysteria.

Certainly Krishna is credited with much caprice, difficult dealing and a playfulness (lila!) which the played-with do not always immediately appreciate. But there is a reasoning as well as a hidden method in his caprices, and when he does come out of it and takes a fancy to be nice to you, he has a supreme attractiveness, charm and allurement which compensates and more than compensates for all you have suffered.

Of course, your decision to continue the solitude has our full approval.