Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Sri Aurobindo — Sahana Devi

Undated

I certainly do not think what I wrote was of a nature to upset X or that you are in any way responsible. What I wrote was as much in praise of him as of your singing and it was to express that that I did not confine myself to your question about the chorus but spoke of the whole concert and of the Radha song and its music. His first letter seems to indicate that it was my not writing to him that upset him – so you are not in any way to blame.

I do not think X wrote much about you apart from this – there was something, I think, about Venkataraman’s dislike for him and his expressing it once to you but I am not sure about this – my memory may have made a wrong connection. At any rate I don’t think there was anything else about you.

Of course what X says about the Mother and the music is one of the irrational things his depression usually suggests to him to justify itself. It is the Mother who has always supported and encouraged him to develop his music – quite apart from her warm encouragement to you and Venkataraman and others. I fail to see how she could do all that if she had no appreciation of Indian music or liked only European music. He seems totally to forget the praise she has lavished on his music and singing.