Sri Aurobindo's notes and letters on his life and yoga and letters on Himself and on The Mother.
Sri Aurobindo : corresp.
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.
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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.
5-7-1933
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