Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6935

Comments on Specific Lines and Passages of the Poem [51]

For Truth is wider, greater than her forms.

A thousand icons they have made of her

And find her in the idols they adore;

But she remains herself and infinite. [p. 276]

“They” means nobody in particular but corresponds to the French “On dit” meaning vaguely “people in general”. This is a use permissible in English; for instance, “They say you are not so scrupulous as you should be.”

1948