Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Himself and the Ashram

The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Volume 35

His Life and Attempts to Write about It
On His Published Prose Writings

Essays on the Gita [3]

I have compiled a translation of most of the slokas of the Gita, using your interpretation of them in the Essays on the Gita. I request you to give me permission to publish the book as it will help the public to understand the Gita from your point of view.

The permission cannot be given — the translations in the Essays are more explanatory than textually precise or cast in a literary style — I do not want that to go out as my translation of the Gita.

1 August 1934