Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1938

Letter ID: 2126

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

June 13, 1938

Guru, I am not lucky enough to be able to follow your method [6.5.38]. This little piece has taken me about 2 hours and after an hour’s slumbering concentration, mind you! After every line I had to stop for 10 or 15 minutes to concentrate for the next line – so it went on...

Let me remind you that Virgil would sit down and write nine lines, then spend the whole morning perfecting them. Now just compare yourself with Virgil; you have written 16 lines in 2 hours. That beats Virgil hollow.