Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7006

Swinburne [2]

I don’t understand how it is possible to take objection to my reading, for the vision is certainly of the acceptance of the suffering inflicted.

I cannot accept this “certainly”. I do not see that any acceptance of the suffering is implied, still less a rapturous acceptance. If I remember right, the supposed recipient of the pain is made to object that it is cruel – she is not supposed to reply “Oh how exquisite!”

24 December 1934