ascent and struggle, but these few alterations do not make any real difference to the spirit. There is a quite sufficient nobility and power in your translation. With that, it seems to me as literal as it can be.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
CWSA 27
Fragment ID: 6789
On Two Translations of The Vedantin’s Prayer [1]
You have made a very fine and true rendering of the
Vedantin’s Prayer. Perhaps so hard and rocky a person as the Vedantin, who is very much of a converted Titan, would not have thought of such a sweet and luxurious word as কুসুমি [kusumi] in the midst of his ascent and struggle, but these few alterations do not make any real difference to the spirit. There is a quite sufficient nobility and power in your translation. With that, it seems to me as literal as it can be.
6 May 1932