Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1. 1935

Letter ID: 1259

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

February 5, 1935 (Evening)

Your humorous verse on the burden of correspondence makes me feel a bit guilty.

I don’t mind your correspondence. It is a relief. But when people write four letters a day in small hand closely running to some 10 pages without a gap anywhere and one gets 20 letters in the afternoon and forty at night (of course not all like that, but still!) it becomes a little too too.

Though I admit that you have reclaimed one non-believer by means of your correspondence, the thought of going away is becoming more and more remote. Perhaps this is no consolation to you, for what do you care after all? Men may come and men may go –

But letters go on forever!