I get a distinct impression that our biographer has not read The Future Poetry. In case he has read at all, I wonder if he has understood it. In case he has understood it at all, it seems he has not prepared himself to live in its inspiration, in its light and power, in its beautiful and incandescent ambiance, in its knowledge and revelation. As Goutam Ghosal reported earlier, Amal had advised him to keep himself off from literary criticism which he never cultivated as a rigorous discipline. That would have certainly been infinitely better, and perhaps it would have made his biography also less vulnerable. You want me to write about future poetry. But that will be quite a while before anything is done in that direction, done with any reasonable justice. Sri Aurobindo spoke of the inspired and inevitable Word, he characterized four planes of poetic inspiration—Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuition, Overmind; he also mentioned poetry springing up from the inner mental and psychic sources, giving it lyrical or dream or surreal quality. Ultimately the poetic Word has to come up from these higher or deeper reserves of consciousness. It has to be the Speech of the Spirit, a-vibrant with is powers, a-glow with its suns, Suns of Truth, Beauty, Delight, Life and Love. It has to be an extension of the ancient Agastyan Mantra, the utterance received by the mind and confirmed by the heart. If this is absent in the modern poetry, then, it is fallacious to compare his poetry with it, that he is dated—without realsing that he is actually speaking not of the past, not of the modern, but of the future. Well, what can we do? All that we can say is that the future poetry is yet to arrive, a poetry for which Sri Aurobindo prepared the groundwork on a universal scale not only in English but in all languages seeking the highest possible expression of creativity. ~ RYD