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On Himself Vol. 26 of SABCL 514 pages 1972 Edition
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Sri Aurobindo's notes and letters on his life and yoga and letters on Himself and on The Mother.

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On Himself

Compiled from Notes and Letters

  Sri Aurobindo : corresp.

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Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo's notes and letters on his life and yoga and letters on Himself and on The Mother. In these letters, Sri Aurobindo writes about his life as a student in England, a teacher in Baroda, a political leader in Bengal, and a writer and yogi in Pondicherry. He also comments on his formative spiritual experiences and the development of his yoga.

Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (SABCL) On Himself Vol. 26 514 pages 1972 Edition
English
 PDF    autobiographical  Sri Aurobindo : corresp.

Part I

Sri Aurobindo on Himself




The Poet and the Critic




Translations of "Vikramorvasie" and "Meghadut"

Q: It is curious how you repeatedly forget that you have so wonderfully Englished Kalidasa's "Vikramorvasie" or "The Hero and the Nymph". Once before also I had to remind you of it. Surely it cannot be that you want

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it to be rejected? By the way, you are supposed also to have translated Kalidasa's "Meghadut" or "The Cloud-Messenger"—in "terza rima".

A: No, I do not reject The Hero and the Nymph. I had merely forgotten all about it.... I did translate the Meghadut, but it was lost by the man with whom I kept it.









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