{"id":767,"date":"2013-07-13T01:30:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=767"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:30:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:17","slug":"74-letter-to-his-father-vol-27-supplement-volume-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/27-supplement-volume-27\/74-letter-to-his-father-vol-27-supplement-volume-27","title":{"rendered":"-74_Letter to his Father.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\n


\n
\nS<\/span><\/font>UPPLEMENT
\nTO<\/font><\/span><\/b>
\n<\/b>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/font>VOLUME
\n26
\n <\/font><\/b> <\/p>\n

ON
\nHIMSELF<\/p>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n


\n<\/font>
\nL<\/span>etter
\nto his Father. The passage reproduced here is part <\/span>
\nof
\na letter written by Sri Aurobindo to his father     
\n<\/span>K.D. Ghose (evidently from Cambridge before December 1890). It was quoted
\nby K. D. Ghose in a letter to his brother-in-law on December 2, 1890. This
\nentire letter was published in The Orient, an illustrated weekly of
\nCalcutta, on 27th February 1949, in facsimile.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n


\n
\n<\/font>Letter to his Father-in-law. Sri Aurobindo wrote this letter on February 19,
\n1919 after the death of his wife Mrinalini Devi on December 17, 1918.
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Letters to Anandrao
\nand "M" (Motilal Roy). These letters, except one which was recently
\nfound, have been reproduced from the book LIGHT TO SUPERLIGHT published by the
\nPrabartak Sangha, Chandernagore. They have been rechecked with photostat copies
\nof the original letters supplied by the Prabartak Sangha. One or two of these
\nletters are either lost or else found in a tattered condition, and in such cases
\nthe version of the LIGHT TO SUPERLIGHT has been followed. The dates in square
\nbrackets in some of the letters are given to indicate approximately the period
\nin which, on the basis of internal evidence, the letters appear to have been
\nwritten.
\n<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Sri Aurobindo kept
\nsome contact with the revolutionaries for the first three or four years of his
\nstay in Pondicherry through one or two correspondents. In writing to them about
\ntheir activities Sri Aurobindo often used code words like "Tantra" and
\n"Tantrik Kriya".
\n<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n


\nLetter to The Hindu. This letter was published in The Hindu of
\nJuly 20, 1911.<\/span><\/font>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Page-417
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

Letter to his Father <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n


\n\t\t
\n\t\t<\/font><\/b>
\n               
\n<\/span>L<\/font><\/b>AST<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>night I was invited to coffee with one of
\nthe dons and in his room I met the great O.B. otherwise Oscar Browning, who is
\nthe feature par excellence <\/i>of King’s. He was extremely flattering, and
\npassing from the subject of cotillions to that of scholarship, he said to me:
\n"I suppose you know you passed an extraordinarily high examination. I have
\nexamined papers at thirteen examinations and I have never during that time seen
\nsuch excellent papers as yours (meaning my Classical papers at the scholarship
\nexamination). As for your essay, it was wonderful" In this essay (a
\ncomparison between Shakespeare and Milton) I indulged my Oriental tastes to the
\ntop of their bent; it overflowed with rich and tropical imagery; it abounded in
\nantitheses and epigrams and it expressed my real feelings without restraint or
\nreservation. I thought myself that it was the best thing I have ever done, but
\nat school it would have been condemned as extraordinarily Asiatic and
\nbombastic. The great O.B. afterwards asked me where my rooms were and when I had
\nanswered he said, "That wretched hole!", then turning to Mahaffy:
\n"How rude we are to our scholars! We get great minds to come down here and
\nthen shut them up in that box! I suppose it is to keep their pride down."<\/font><\/p>\n

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