Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6934

Comments on Specific Lines and Passages of the Poem [50]

To unify their task, excluding life

Which cannot bear the nakedness of the Vast, [p. 273]

I suppose the intransitive use of “unify” is not illegitimate, though the Oxford dictionary gives only the transitive.

Quite possible to use a transitive verb in this way with an unexpressed object, things in general being understood.

31 March 1948